Davis v. Ball
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Pawnee County; Conn Linn, Judge. Action by A. T. Ball against R. D. Davis and others. From judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, C. J.
Plaintiff below was employed to pull sucker rods from an oil well. They were beijng pulled by means of a steam engine, a bull wheel, a bull wheel shaft, a wire line, a derrick, a hook and rod elevator. The allegations of negligence, in substance, charge that a regular rod line was not used on the occasion of the injury, but in its stead there was used a tubing line, much heavier than the regular rod line, and the weight of the line on the bull wheel side, when the stand of rods was up in the derrick, was so much heavier than the weight of the short end of the line on the other side of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Flike v. . Boston and Albany R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
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- Petroleum Iron Works Co. v. BullingtonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
- O'Brien v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Kansas · 1921
- Helm v. MicklesonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
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