Texaco, Inc. v. Jimmy N. Pruitt

MURRAH, Chief Judge.

While Sayer’s Well Servicing Company, Inc. was servicing a pump on a Utah oil well owned by defendant-appel-,, lant Texaco, Inc., plaintiff-appellee Pruitt, an employee of Sayer’s, was seriously injured when a piece of the pumping equipment known as a “horsehead” fell upon him. Having collected workmen’s compensation as an employee of Sayer’s, Pruitt brought this action against Texaco, alleging that Texaco negligently permitted the horsehead to fall. 1 Texaco denied any negligence, asserting that Sayer’s negligence caused the accident, and in any event, that Pruitt was…