Flippo v. Martin

The defendants bring before us for review of judgment of the district court of Eddy County awarding the plaintiff $27.00 per week for 550 weeks under the Workmen's Compensation Act of New Mexico for a condition of total permanent disability found by a jury to have resulted from an accidental injury to him arising out of and in the course of his employment as a driller's helper in a well drilling outfit. His employers were William L. Martin and Clayton L. Hurley, a co-partnership doing business as Martin and Hurley Drilling Company. In the claim filed, they were named defendants along with…