Ingalls v. Monte Cristo Oil & Development Co.
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Kern County granting a motion for a, new trial. W. M. Conley, Judge presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtConrey, P. J.
Appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial. On the twenty-second day of February, 1908, and for some time prior thereto, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant at its oil wells in Kern County, and was working in the capacity of a well puller. On the- day above mentioned, and while engaged in the pulling of a certain well of the defendant, it was, as the evidence shows, necessary for the plaintiff to stand on a walking-beam within a derrick and connected with the machinery then being used by the plaintiff and other men so engaged. While plaintiff was so standing…
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