Wilson v. Wininger

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered in the district court of Lewis and Clark County following a jury trial. Since appellant contends that the verdict of the jury is not supported by the evidence we will briefly outline the fact situation.

Plaintiff, a resident of Texas, was employed by one W. M. Scherer to “watch a well” being drilled near Dillon, Montana, in the month of May 1955. Upon arriving in Dillon he met defendant. The well was being drilled by the R. & W. Drilling Company, a corporation, of which the defendant was president; he appears to…