New Domain Oil & Gas Co. v. Frazier

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Appellee, Fred Frazier, was employed as a roustabout on an oil lease by the New Domain Oil Company, and began to perform his duties in the morning of the day of the injury of which he complains in this action. Another workman was near the top of a sixty-five foot derrick attempting to raise a steel cable, which had jumped out of the groove of the crown pulley, and replace it. The cable was heavy, and the man was unable to raise it and put it into the groove. Seeing this, and without direction from anyone in authority, appellee Frazier climbed the…