Suttle v. Hope Natural Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Harrison County. Action by J. Addison Suttle, administrator, etc.., against the Hope Natural Gas Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LyNch, Judge:
Plaintiff’s intestate, his son nearly sixteen years old, was killed by the fall of a’ three-pole derrick which he and other employes of the defendant were engaged at the time *731in erecting preparatory to and necessary for .tbe cleaning of a gas well to accelerate its production. Tbe derrick was formed while on or near the ground out of three stems of six inch pipe forty to fifty feet long, bound together at one end, the ' other ends of two of them being placed or chained at or near the sockets prepared to receive them when hoisted into the - proper position and cut in the sills…
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