Texas Employers' Insurance v. Brownlee

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. The allegations contained in respondent’s petition state the nature and cause of the injuries he sustained as follows:

On March 11, 1951, the plaintiff was employed by and working for the Edgar Davis Drilling Company, hereinafter referred to as the employer, in Kent County, Texas, as a laborer on an oil well being drilled by said employer, and on said occasion, and while engaged in the due course of his employment by said employer, he and the other employees of said employer were engaged in working with the drill collars used in the drilling of said well…