Oxford v. Signal Oil & Gas Co.

Opinion

GARGANO, Acting P. J .

Plaintiffs are the heirs at law of decedents Rex Oxford and Richard Akins. They brought this action against Signal Oil & Gas Company, Howard Chase, Larney Hollick, and others, to recover damages for the wrongful deaths of the decedents, who were killed on February 10, 1967, in the explosion of a “spent caustic tank” belonging to Signal.

Intervener is the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier for the Transpacific Company, a company engaged in the business of supplying labor to the oil industry. At the time of death, decedents were in the general employment of…