Dowell, Inc. v. Jowers
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
LEE, Circuit Judge.
Appellees, plaintiffs below, are the widow .and three minor children of Frank Jowers who was employed as a driller by the Pen-rod Drilling Company and who was killed on October 29, 1945, by an explosion which occurred during the bringing in of a gas well in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Appellant, Dowell, Incorporated, defendant below, 1 is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Michigan and duly authorized to do business in Louisiana. Jow-ers was in charge of one of the Penrod drilling crews which had drilled the well in question. When the well was…
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