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SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. LAIN

No. 10625.

139 F.2d 142 (1943)

SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. LAIN et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 10, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Prendergast, of Marshall, Tex., for appellant.

Hugh Carney and Howard A. Carney, both of Atlanta, Tex., and Chas. B. Wallace, Walace Hawkins, and Jerome Chamberlain, all of Dallas, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Charley J. Young, while in the employ of Magnolia Petroleum Company in an oil field in east Texas, received an electrical shock which resulted in his death.

The death of Young resulted in a court action and the important facts surrounding his death are these: Magnolia Petroleum Company owned and operated oil wells on certain leased property in east Texas; after its wells were in operation it constructed oil tanks in which to treat crude...

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