Corpus v. K-J Oil Co.

SHANNON, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Pablo Corpus, Jr., sued appel-lee K-J Oil Company in the district court of Caldwell County for personal injury resulting from an oil-field accident. The district court rendered summary judgment that Corpus take nothing. This Court will affirm the judgment.

K-J employed Cox Oil Well Service (Cox) to “pull” 1 its well “B-2” on the Brown Lease in Caldwell County. Corpus was an employee of Cox. In the process of pulling the pipe, the work-over rig boom touched an overhead electric highline (or powerline) and Corpus suffered severe burns from the resulting…