Kill v. Summitt Drilling Co.

This action originated in the district court of Pottawatomie county by the filing of a petition on February 25, 1928, on behalf of Vesta Kill, the widow, and the minor children of herself and John N. Kill, her husband, to recover damages for his death, alleged to have occurred on the 28th of December, 1927, while he was engaged in work as a driller on behalf of the defendant company on an oil and gas well in Pottawatomie county, Okla.

There was a charge that the atmosphere had become heavily saturated with oil and gas, and especially gas, in the vicinity of the well, arising from the fact that…