Gulf Oil Corporation v. Harris

WILLIAMS, Justice:

Under review in this original action is the State Industrial Court’s award of death benefits to the widow of a deceased workman.

The record shows that decedent, a pumper serving employer near Meeker, had under his charge approximately twenty-seven oil wells; that he worked five days a week, approximately eight hours a day; a co-pumper had an additional 30 or so wells to pump; that when his co-pumper would have a day off decedent took charge of the additional thirty wells regularly assigned to that co-worker; that on Saturday, December 13, 1958, because of the co-pumper having…