Gulf Oil Corporation v. Mrs. Eva Wright and the Standard Insurance Company, Intervener
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
John R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
Wright, an employee of Zephyr Drilling Corporation, an independent contractor drilling an oil well for Gulf Oil Corporation in the West Texas area, was asphyxiated on the morning of May 9, 1953, while he and Simpson, Driller on Tour 2, were jetting out one of the pits. By verdict on a general charge, the jury found Gulf negligent on one or more of these grounds: failure to furnish safe place to work, to make tests of gaseous water flowing from the well, to warn Wright, to mud off the gas formation and ordering the continuing of drilling in the face of the known…
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