Skelly Oil Company v. Carter

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages, for the death of Richard E. Carter, brought by his surviving widow as plaintiff, for herself, and for the three surviving minor children of deceased, against the Skelly 'Oil Company as defendant. Deceased was an employee of Skelly Oil Company, and on 15 August 1955, while working in the course and scope of his employment, undertook to remove a unibolt coupling from a heater which constituted a portion of the equipment used by defendant to produce gas on the Carrie Labay Lease in Colorado County, Texas. Because gas was confined under pressure…