Heldt v. Martin

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court overruling appellants’ plea of privilege.

This suit was filed August 1, 1962, as a common law action for damages for injuries alleged to have been received on or about November 13, 1959, while working for Falco Drilling Company on the substructure of a drilling rig, alleging that the front end of a truck belonging to defendants struck the substructure causing plaintiff to fall a distance of 12 feet, and receiving injuries from such fall and alleging negligence of the defendants.

On August 24, 1962, the defendants filed a…