Rota-Cone Oil Field Operating Co. v. Chamness

HURST, V.C.J.

The Workmen’s Compensation Law of this state provides that if a workman entitled to compensation thereunder is injured “by the negligence or wrong of another not in the same employ,” he may pursue his common law remedy against such person in the courts, 85 O. S. 1941 § 44. The principal issue involved in this case is whether employees of separate independent contractors under the same general contractor, working together to accomplish a common result, but performing the separate tasks for which they were hired, are persons in the “same employ” within the meaning of the above…