Eberle v. Sinclair Prairie Oil Co.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

The McGeorge Corporation, 1 a pipe-line service company, is a corporation organized under the laws of Oklahoma. The Sinclair Prairie Oil Company 2 is a corporation organized under the laws of Maine. Sinclair was the owner of a gas pipe line located in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. A leak developed in the line and Sinclair employed McGeorge to repair the leak. Carl Eberle was an employee of McGeorge. On February 6, 1939, Alvah Gray, foreman of McGeorge, Eberle, and two other employees of McGeorge undertook to repair the leak. Eberle died as. the result of an explosion…