Williamson v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson J.:

This is an appeal from an award of $2500 in favor of J. W. Williamson, an employee of The Prairie Oil arid Gas Company, for injuries sustained while employed by that company in the construction of a pipe line. On December 10, 1912, while appellee and three other men, under the charge of a foreman, were carrying a pipe about twenty feet long and weighing about seven hundred pounds, the ap-pellee’s fellow servant, one Harvey James, who was not physically fit for such heavy work, and who was carrying the rear end of the pipe opposite Williamson…