Barron v. Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n

Plaintiff in error was employed by the Atlantic Production Company upon an oil lease situated in the Crane county oil field. It appears that the gas emitted from the producing wells on this lease was of a poisonous nature, and that during the few months in which he had worked thereon his eyes had severál times become inflamed, and- on one occasion he had been almost knocked out when gauging an oil tank from the fumes arising from this oil. However, he -fully recovered from this attack; and upon the occasion of the injury, for which compensation is now claimed, he was engaged in lowering…