Stephens & Stephens v. Logan

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. In October, 1973, Eddie Lee Jackson, Oscar Logan and Elbert Davis were passengers in a pickup truck owned and driven by their employer Rogers Blankenship. Rogers had picked the three men up at their homes and they were on their way to a pulpwood cutting work site when the pickup truck collided with a school bus causing the immediate death of all four men. Rogers had purchased his father’s pulpwood business and was supplying pulpwood to Georgia-Pacific through the account of appellant Stephens and Stephens. It is undisputed that at the…