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SUN OIL COMPANY v. PIERCE, ETC.

No. 15214.

224 F.2d 580 (1955)

SUN OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. L. C. PIERCE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Case, Henry D. Akin, Otis B. Gary, and George P. Gardere, Robertson, Jackson, Payne, Lancaster & Walker, Leachman, Gardere, Akin & Porter, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Charles B. Jones, E. L. Klett, J. E. Vickers, Ralph Brock, Lubbock, Tex., John J. Watts, Odessa, Tex., Klett, Bean & Evans, Trout & Jones, Lubbock, Tex., for appellee Johnston Testers, Inc.

Before HOLMES and RIVES, Circuit Judges, and WRIGHT, District Judge.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellee Pierce sued appellant Sun Oil Company and appellee Johnston Testers, Inc. for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by Pierce at the site of an oil well being drilled for Sun Oil. Pierce was a driller in the employe of Baker-Taylor Drilling Company engaged by Sun Oil to drill the well. Johnston Testers, Inc. was engaged by Sun Oil to run a drill stem test on the well. Sun Oil kept its foreman on the job and retained over...

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