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PRYOR v. LEE C. MOORE, CORPORATION

No. 5871.

262 F.2d 673 (1959)

Emmett W. PRYOR and Pacific Employers Insurance Company, Appellants, v. LEE C. MOORE, CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde J. Watts, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Claude Briggs, Oklahoma City, Okl., and the firm of Looney, Watts, Looney & Nichols, Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief) for appellants.

Alex Cheek, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Villard Martin, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, and MURRAH, PICKETT, LEWIS and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Pryor, was injured in the course of his employment on an oil well drilling rig, when the mast, sometimes called a derrick, collapsed under the tensile strain of a pipe-loosening and pulling operation. Having received workmen's compensation under the laws of Oklahoma, Pryor and his employer's compensation insurance carrier sued the appellee-manufacturer of the derrick as in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382, 111 N.E....

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