High Gravity Oil Co. v. Row's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and defendant below, High Gravity Oil Company, undertook to move an oil drilling machine from one part of Magoffin county to another, a distance of ten miles or more, and in doing so it necessarily traversed some rough mountainous roads. It used as motive power in the operation six mule teams and also a five-eighths wire rope that worked in a pulley encased in a snatch hook, and the latter was' attached to the end of the tongue of the machine, but the wire rope and the snatch hook were not used except in climbing hills or mountains,…