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DOWELL v. JOWERS

No. 12838.

182 F.2d 576 (1950)

DOWELL, Inc. v. JOWERS et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Val Irion, Shreveport, La., Malcolm E. Lafargue, Shreveport, La., for appellant.

Harry V. Booth, Shreveport, La., John A. Dixon, Jr., Shreveport, La., J. Roy Caskey, Arcadia, La., for appellees.

Before McCORD and BORAH, Circuit Judges, and WRIGHT, District Judge.

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

This is the second appeal in an action brought by the widow and three minor children of Frank Jowers, who was employed by the Penrod Drilling Company as a driller and who was killed on October 29, 1945, by an explosion which occurred during the bringing in of a gas well. On the day aforementioned, the Penrod Drilling Company had completed drilling of the well and was getting it in readiness for defendant-appellant, Dowell Incorporated, whom it...

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