Glenn Hubbard Hurst and Employers Casualty Company, Intervener v. Gulf Oil Corporation

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This case and the Sword case 1 were heard successively (though in reverse order) in the district court and in this Court; and, under the facts and circumstances of the particular case, present the same question for decision, viz.: whether a jury could properly hold the employer of an independent contractor liable for injury to an employee of that contractor.

In this case also, Gulf was the owner of an oil and gas lease covering “flat, bald prairie.” It contracted with Southeastern Drilling Company for the drilling and completion of a well for oil and gas. The contract was…