Connellee v. Nees

This suit was instituted by G. L. Nees against the defendants, Massie Drilling Company, T. W. Connellee, Miss L. D. Connellee, Joe M. Collins, H. T. Pang-burn, and T. O. Massie. The defendant Joe M. Collins died while the suit was pending, and the executors of his estate, G. Morton and W. R. Edrington, were made parties defendant by an amended pleading. The plaintiff sought recovery of damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in the course of his employment on August 19, 1920, while working as a “derrick man” on a drilling rig negligently operated by defendants in…