SUN OIL CO. v. KNETEN

No. 12014.

164 F.2d 806 (1947)

SUN OIL CO. v. KNETEN et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 7, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. R. Greer and R. D. Cox, Jr., both of McAllen, Tex., for appellant.

James L. Lattimore and Joe Alsup, both of Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Fred Henry Kneten, son of the plaintiffs, Caroline and Henry Kneten, was scalded to death by steam injected into a boiler inside of which he was working, as an employee and member of the crew of Jeff J. Allen, a boiler maker, who had made a contract with appellant to clean, repair, and generally overhaul a battery of three boilers belonging to appellant.

Appellant, on the date of the accident, was operating a drilling rig, the power...

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