Stanolind Pipe Line Co. v. Davis

Tom F. Davis, the respondent (claimant) was employed by Stanolind Pipe Line Company as a pipe line welder. His ear was standing- some 200 yards from the pipe line, it being near quitting time, he left the pipe line and approached his car with a “bull plug” which he was going to take to the end of the line and insert in the open pipe and then go on home.

Three drunken men approached in another automobile, alighted therefrom and attacked claimant, striking him in the back with a hammer, resulting in a fractured backbone. The attackers had formerly been employees of petitioner, but had recently…