McQueen & Johnson, Inc. v. Morgan

This is an original proceeding brought by McQueen & Johnson, Inc., and Associated Indemnity Corporation, petitioners, to review an award made to John Morgan, respondent.

On the 11th day of January, 1940, respondent filed his first notice of injury and claim for compensation, alleging that while employed on a drilling rig as a driller’s helper he sustained an accidental injury on December 3, 1939, when he was attempting to lift a three- or four-hundred-pound Halliburton tester. The facts with relation to the nature of the injury received and the nature of the employment are nowhere contested or…