MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. SUTTON

No. 35224.

208 Okla. 488 (1953)

257 P.2d 307

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. et al. v. SUTTON.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl A. Brown, Dallas, Tex., and Robert W. Richards, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs in error.

Gomer Smith and Gomer Smith, Jr., Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.


BLACKBIRD, J.

In this action, defendant in error, as plaintiff, obtained a verdict and judgment against plaintiffs in error, as defendants, in the sum of $70,000 for the alleged wrongful death of her husband, Buster Sutton, in an explosion on an oil and gas lease.

The lease belonged to one of the plaintiffs in error, Magnolia Petroleum Company, and Sutton was the employee of Monarch Construction Company, which was engaged under contract with said oil company...

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