Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Booth

O’QUINN, Justice.

October 5, 1933, Ellis B. Jones, .the then husband of appellee Mrs. Troge Booth, and the father of Joe Edd Jones, a minor, was an employee of appellant Magnolia Petroleum Company, and lost his life as the result of a fire while engaged in cleaning an oil still. Mrs. Troge Booth (then wife of Ellis B. Jones) brought this suit in her own behalf, and as next friend of her minor son, Joe Edd Jones, to recover exemplary damages only for the death of her said husband, Ellis B. Jones. The employer, Magnolia Petroleum Company, carried workmen’s compensation insurance covering…