Mrs. Gilbert Lee Woolard, a Widow v. Mobil Pipe Line Company

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

On the night of June 20, 1969, Gilbert Lee Woolard, an employee of appellant Mobil Pipe Line Company, was working at that company’s Beaumont, Texas, metering station with two other men: Red Marsh, another Pipe Line Company employee, and Walton Goodwin, an employee of appellant Mobil Oil Corporation, which leased the land on which the metering station was located to Mobil Pipe Line, its wholly-owned subsidiary. 1 The men were removing water from a ten-inch liquid petroleum gas (LPG) pipeline running from Corsicana, Texas, through Pipe Line’s Beaumont metering station…