DIERKS FORESTS, INC. v. PARNELL

No. 38189.

331 P.2d 392 (1958)

DIERKS FORESTS, INC., Petitioner, v. Harrison PARNELL, Bessie Parnell and Oklahoma State Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Finney, Idabel, Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, Kansas City, Mo., for petitioner.

Ed R. LeForce, Idabel, Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for respondents.


JACKSON, Justice.

On February 27, 1957, Elvin Roy Parnell, age 23, while employed by Jim Pollard, an independent contractor of Dierks Forests, Inc., principal employer, sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment resulting in his death. The accident occurred while he was engaged in cutting timber when a limb of a tree struck him across his back and neck.

On April 20, 1957, Harrison...

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