Singleton v. Dunn

DE CONCINI, Justice.

The defendant Everett Singleton and his brother, Chuck Singleton, owned a secondhand well-drilling rig and had. a well-drilling business which they operated in Maricopa County. The well-rig, a homemade affair, was designed and built for the purpose of drilling wells for domestic purposes and especially six and eight inch wells. On Sunday, March 23, 1947, Everett Singleton, the defendant, was drilling a well with the rig about one-quarter mile south of the Phoenix-Wickenburg highway in the community of Surprise. The well was being drilled for and under contract with a Mrs.…