Cordray v. Standard Oil Co.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

REYNOLDS, J.

Plaintiff alleges that he was employed by defendant in operating machinery in drilling a well for oil,. and that in the course of his employment it became his duty

“To stoop and lift a heavy ‘sheave wheel,’ weighing approximately 200 pounds, around which a cable runs, which caused petitioner to have to brace himself against a pole and lift the heavy implement, while the cable was around it, and because of a sudden slip of petitioner’s foot, or a jerk of the ‘sheave wheel’ which petitioner was lifting, and because of the sudden, severe and heavy strain upon…