Bean v. Independent Torpedo Co.

VAN VALKENBURGH, District Judge.

Defendant in error, Independent Torpedo *505Company, hereinafter called the defendant, as .it was below, maintained a factory near Ring-ling, Old., where it manufactured nitroglycerine for use in its business of developing oil and gas wells in the Southern Oklahoma fields. The decedent, Charles R. Van Dell, a man 41 years of age, was an employee of the defendant, and had charge of its business of shooting oil and gas wells in Southern Oklahoma. Van Dell lived at Healdton, in rhat state. About one-half mile from Healdton the defendant maintained a magazine for the…