Campbell Contracting Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

The Campbell Contracting Company was engaged in quarrying and crushing stone near Elkins, N. C. The company had with the Maryland Casualty Company, a Maryland corporation, an indemnity insurance policy, protecting it against loss from liability imposed by law, for damage or death accidently suffered by an employee. The policy stipulated that it did not cover persons who were employed by the assured contrary to law, or who were engaged in working for the assured contrary to law as to age of employment.

Ovid Stone, a boy between 14 and 16 years of age, was employed by…