Palmer v. Skelly Oil Co.

DIFFENDAFFER, C.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been received by plaintiff while he was engaged as a driller in. drilling an oil well on a lease owned by defendants in Greenwood county, Kan.

The accident occurred on the 14th day of January, 1923. Plaintiff alleges that he was employed by one Clyde Boggs, under the name of Clyde Drilling Company; that Boggs was drilling the well under a contract with defendants, when he employed plaintiff, and that he commenced to work on the well about the 27th day of December, 1922; that defendants had erected an engine…