Portilla Drilling Co. v. Miller

SMITH, Chief Justice.

Lee Miller, as plaintiff below, sued Portilla Drilling Company, defendant, for damages for personal injuries admittedly sustained by him in an accident occurring on an oil lease in Calhoun County, on which the Company was drilling a well. Miller was an employee of Younger Brothers, Inc., a trucking concern engaged by the Drilling Company to haul materials and supplies used in its drilling operations.

The Drilling Company owned a “mud pump” which it used in drilling opera*938tions. This pump weighed between 40,000 and 50,000 pounds, and was operated. by steam. Attached to the…