Jones v. Louisiana Oil Refining Corp.

The defendant is engaged in the business of drilling, maintaining and operating oil wells in this state. It maintains a general warehouse at Haynesville where it keeps all' ’ kind of oil well machinery and supplies which are distributed as they are needed throughout the territory in which it operates. It does not maintain wagons or teams or truck for the purpose of distributing these materials, but it employed R. J. Miller, who owned wagons and teams, to do this hauling for it. Miller was to furnish all the teams the defendant needed and to distribute machinery and supplies as directed by the…