Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. v. Hane

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Leslie L. Landrum was employed by the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation on January 12, 1930, to work on an oil and gas lease near Sand Springs, Oklahoma. He was a strong, able-bodied man, 26 years of age. He had worked as an automobile mechanic and in various capacities around oil fields. He had operated pumps and understood machinery.

Near the bank of a small creek was located a gasoline engine and water pump used in pumping water to such lease. Such pump and engine were enclosed in a small wooden building approximately eight feet wide and ten feet long. There was a…