Woods v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Plaintiff was in the employ of Caldwell & Co., contractors, as a helper to bricklayers. Whilst in the performance of his duties he was jammed and crushed between an elevator and a piece of timber, so that his back was seriously injured and stiffened, and he can no longer perform any kind of physical labor, or earn a living.

Caldwell & Co. carried employers’ liability insurance in the defendant company, and plaintiff brings this suit directly against the insurance company, for the compensation due him under the workmen’s compensation statute (Act 20' of 1914, as amended from time to time), to…