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BUTTS v. ROSE DRILLING COMPANY

No. 37371.

304 P.2d 986 (1956)

Francis BUTTS, Petitioner, v. ROSE DRILLING COMPANY, Tri-State Insurance Company and the State Industrial Commission, Respondents. In the Matter of the Death of Earl Butts.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 11, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd L. Walker and Poe, Murdock & Langford, Tulsa, for petitioner.

Covington & Donovan, Tulsa, Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for respondents.

CARLILE, Justice.

On November 2, 1954 Earl Butts, an oil well driller, while in the employ of Rose Drilling Company and engaged in the course of his employment, suddenly fell backward and died within fifteen or twenty minutes thereafter.

On November 13, 1954 Francis Butts, surviving widow and sole dependent heir of deceased, filed a claim for compensation against Padgett-Eller Drilling Company in which she states...

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