Gerrard v. Harvey & Newman Drilling Company

KIKER, Justice.

Plaintiff’s action is under the workmen’s compensation act. In the complaint it was alleged that plaintiff was injured on August 9, 1953 while working for defendant and in the course of his employment. Plaintiff asserted that at the time of the alleged injury he was a derrick man and was making a pipe connection on the rig; and that the alleged injury caused plaintiff total, permanent disability, necessitating medical expense in excess of seven hundred dollars.

For answer defendant admitted the employment of plaintiff on the date of the alleged injury but denied all other…