Flick v. Crouch

BARNES, Justice:

The parties herein have filed briefs dealing with the question of the applicability of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to establish prima facie negligence against multiple defendants who had done welding in re-legging a drilling rig shortly before its collapse resulting in the death of Appellant’s decedent.

The pertinent facts are as hereinafter related. Decedent, Ray Louis Flick, employed by Parker Drilling Company as a roughneck, was killed December 11, 1963, while engaged in drilling a well for oil and gas near Coal, Oklahoma. The driller of Appellant’s decedent’s drilling…