Blassingame v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co.

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

H. C. Blassingame, Sr., as next friend for his eighteen year old son, H. C. Blas-singame, Jr., sued A. O. Wellman & Sons, Ted Weiner, Paul DeCleva, Texas Crude Company, Texas Crude Oil Company and Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, Inc., for damages caused by an injury to H. C. Blassingame, Jr., in an explosion at a plugged oil well on the Blassingame farm. He alleged that the “operators” pronounced the well a dry hole and twice purported to plug it; that in the first attempt the “operators” employed Halliburton to do the plugging and it acted as agent for the…