Southern Underwriters v. Lloyds America

COMBS, Justice.

On July 8, 1936, while engaged in pulling pipe and reworking an oil well in the Conroe oil field, Ovid M. Thompson was killed as the result of the collapsing of the derrick being used in the reworking operation. The only matter at issue in this law suit is which of two compensation insurance companies is liable. The oil well being reworked belonged to Feltex Oil Corporation, for which appellee Lloyds America was the compensation insurance carrier. The well was being reworked by C. E. Starrett Oil Producing Company, for which appellant, Southern Underwriters, was the…