Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. v. Welch

This is an original proceeding to review the award of the Industrial Commission in one of the wild gas well cases happening near Oklahoma City.

The brief on behalf of the petitioners appears to fairly well express what is in the record, and we therefore extract from it the following;

“On August 5, 1931, Thalar Welch filed a claim with the State Industrial Commission. In this claim the allegation was made that on February 13 and 14, 1931, thev claimant had suffered a permanent deafness to both ears, due to the roaring of a wild oil well, known as Mary Unsell No. 4, located in the oil field…