Covington v. Rutledge Drilling Company

CARMODY, Justice.

Covington, as claimant, appeals from the ■denial of any award for workmen’s compensation.

The findings of fact by the trial court are in no sense attacked, except No. 8, which will be set out in full hereafter. Otherwise, the facts as found by the trial court may be summarized as follows:

Covington was a roughneck, employed by the defendant drilling company at various locations. He had been working on a drill ■site approximately seventy miles from Farmington on the day of the accident in ■question. The shortest route from Farmington (where the men lived) to the drill ■site…