Exploration Drilling Company v. Guthrie

An appeal has been taken by Exploration Drilling Company as employer from a workmen’s compensation award which was made by the District Court in Campbell County to Bill D. Guthrie, an injured employee. Guthrie was awarded fifty-percent permanent partial disability payable out of the Industrial Accident Fund of the state. He was also reimbursed for medical expenses incurred in the amount of $25.

The employer-company was engaged in drilling an oil well in Campbell County when the incident out of which the claim arose occurred. Guthrie had been employed in the capacity of a roughneck in…