Copeland Well Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.

MOORE, Justice.

Shell Oil Company, appellee, instituted suit against Copeland Well Service, Inc., appellant, seeking recoupment under the indemnity provisions of an oil well work-over contract. Shell Oil Company employed Copeland Well Service, Inc., hereinafter called Copeland, to re-work a well known as the J. B. Parker Well No. 9R situated in Anderson County. While performing the work Homer Johnson, an employee of Copeland, was electrocuted. Thereafter his mother, Velma P. Hill, brought a wrongful death action against Shell Oil Company in the Third Judicial District Court of Anderson County,…