ROOSTH & GENECOV PRODUCTION CO. v. WHITE

No. A-4176.

262 S.W.2d 99 (1953)

ROOSTH & GENECOV PRODUCTION CO., Inc. et al. v. WHITE et al.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladney & Stephen, Henderson, Saunders & Thurmond, Tyler, J. Byron Saunders, Tyler, Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Miller & Martin and Royal H. Brin, Jr., Dallas, for petitioners.

Waldrop & Shaw, Gordon R. Wellborn, Rex Houston and Bath & Turner, Henderson, Leachman, Matthews & Gardere and Henry D. Akin, Dallas, for respondents.


GARWOOD, Justice.

Our petitioner, Roosth & Genecov Production Company, Inc., defendant below, seeks relief from a judgment (on a verdict) awarding damages to the respondent-plaintiff White for personal injuries incident to the collapse of an oil well drilling derrick, owned by the petitioner-defendant, but actually erected on its leasehold by respondent-defendant, A. M. Sale, under "independent" contract between these two parties, and in use at the time of the...

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