Ætna Life Ins. v. Portland Gas & Coke Co.

The defendant in error Gas & Coke Company, being engaged in the construction of a gas plant on its property adjoining the government moorings in Multnomah county, Or., and having employed in the work a large number of men, secured from the plaintiff in error Insurance Company a policy entitled by the latter “Contractor’s Employers’ Liability Policy,” by which, in consideration of certain premiums which the case shows the defendant in error paid, it agreed to indemnify the assured (within certain amounts within which the present case falls) against loss arid expense arising or resulting from claims upon the assured for damages on account of bodily-injuries or death accidentally suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, by an employé or employés of the assured by reason of the business as described and conducted at the locations named in the policy, with *553 certain exceptions not applicable here. In the course of the work certain of the employés of the Gas & Coke Company contracted typhoid fever from the water furnished them by the latter, on account of which that company was compelled to pay damages to such injured employés, to recover the aggregate amount of which from the…