Gray v. Baker & Taylor Drilling Co.

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

DODSON, Justice.

We withdraw our former opinion handed down on 30 April 1980, and substitute this one in its place which reaches the same result. The motion for rehearing is overruled.

George E. Gray is the appellant and Baker & Taylor Drilling Company, a corporation, is the appellee. On the occasion in question, Gray was employed by J. D. Hodges Trucking Co., Inc., as a truck driver. Baker & Taylor hired Hodges to haul some five and one-half inch casing pipe from Baker & Taylor’s yard in Canadian, Texas to a drilling rig in that vicinity. The temperature was below 32…