Prater v. Traders & General Ins. Co.

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This action was brought to recover under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. G. W. Prater, the injured employee against whom a verdict was instructed in the lower court, was employed as a pumper in the East Texas oil field. It seems that on the lease where he worked the oil would flow from the well into a tank on the premises, but had to be pumped from the tank into the pipe line. It was Prater’s duty to operate the pump and to keep it in repair. One night, while riding in an automobile with Jess Farley and others en route between the lease and the town of Arp, Prater was…