THOMPSON v. GETMAN

No. 7353.

389 P.2d 854 (1964)

74 N.M. 1

C. T. THOMPSON, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Earl GETMAN, Clarence Getman and Arthur Stine, Defendants in the Alternative-Appellees, Lincoln National Security Corporation, Defendant in the Alternative-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

February 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M.H. Cullender, Thomas B. Forbis, Roswell, for appellant.

E. Forrest Sanders, William W. Bivins, Las Cruces, for appellees.


COMPTON, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff filed a claim under the Workmen's Compensation Act seeking compensation for a back injury alleged to have been sustained by him on February 26, 1961, as the result of a fall from a tree while chopping tree limbs to obtain timber for mine bulkheads. The plaintiff named as his employers the individual defendants as joint venturers in the operation of a mining claim, or, in the alternative, the defendant corporation.

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