SHELL OIL COMPANY v. PRESTIDGE

No. 15365.

249 F.2d 413 (1957)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. Lanus Wayne PRESTIDGE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude Marcus, Blaine F. Evans, Boise, Idaho, Grant C. Aadnesen, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellant.

Glenn A. Coughlan, Boise, Idaho, Milton E. Zener, Pocatello, Idaho, for appellee.

Before HEALY and FEE, Circuit Judges, and MURRAY, District Judge.


W. D. MURRAY, District Judge.

Between 7:00 and 7:30 o'clock on the morning of June 1, 1954, Lanus Wayne Prestidge, appellee herein, and a companion, visited the site where Rocky Mountain Oil Corporation was drilling for oil near Montpelier in Bear Lake County, Idaho, for the purpose of seeking employment. At the time they arrived at the site, the day's work had not commenced and Clarence S. Robinson, the Drilling Superintendent on the operation, whom they wanted to...

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