SMITH & CONKLIN BROS. v. GRIFFITH

No. A-4387.

268 S.W.2d 124 (1954)

SMITH & CONKLIN BROS. et al. v. GRIFFITH et al.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 9, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dyess, Dyess & Jennings, Houston, Strasburger, Price, Holland, Kelton & Miller and Mark Martin, Dallas, for petitioners.

Smith & Lehmann and Morris, Underwood & Oldham, Houston, L. F. Hardin, Rosenberg, for respondents.


HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

In the trial court respondent Howard Vernon Griffith was awarded damages for personal injuries against petitioners Smith & Conklin Brothers, and the trial court's judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 260 S.W.2d 705.

Respondent was an employee of Starworth Drilling Company, and received his injuries as a result of an accident which happened while an oil well drilling rig owned by...

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