Long v. Foley

Lynch, Judge :

Relying on the lack of causal connection between the negligence averred in the declaration in an action of trespass on the case and the infliction of the injury complained of and *503sued for, the defendant demurred from the pleading, and, the demurrer being overruled, the court certified the case here under the authority of the second paragraph of §1, ch. 135, Code 1916. Plaintiff sustained the injury while engaged as a “stabber”, a term employed in the work of tubing oil and gas wells, the duty required being to guide with his hands the joint suspended by a rope from the derrick…