Shell Oil Co. v. Waxler

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

Shell Oil Company appeals from a judgment entered for the plaintiff, Mitchell V. Waxier, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while working on Shell’s premises. The plaintiff, an employee of Brown & Root, Inc., was injured in November 1977, while doing construction work for Brown & Root at a refinery plant owned by Shell in Deer Park, Texas. Shell had contracted with Brown & Root to construct a portion of the expanded refinery improvements, and Brown & Root had employed Waxier as a heavy equipment operator. Waxier⅛ complaint against Shell…