Safety Casualty Co. v. Staggs

SMITH, Chief Justice.

In this -workmen’s compensation case Magnolia Petroleum Company was the employer, Chas. E. Staggs, appellee, was the employee, and Safety Casualty Company, the insurance carrier. In a trial, in response to jury findings, judgment was rendered awarding compensation to appellee and the casualty company appealed.

Appellee was a pumper on his employer’s oil and gas lease in Zapata county. It was a part of his duties to clean his employer’s machinery on the lease, and keep it clean. For this purpose, he had for some time used kerosene, furnished him by his employer, through its…