GULF OIL CORPORATION v. HARRIS

No. 40435.

425 P.2d 957 (1967)

GULF OIL CORPORATION and The Travelers Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. Pauline Gladys HARRIS and The State Industrial Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Looney, Watts, Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Oklahoma City, for petitioners.

George E. Fisher, Oklahoma City, amicus curiae.

Dick Bell and Frank Seay, Seminole, Charles R. Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., for respondents.


WILLIAMS, Justice:

Under review in this original action is the State Industrial Court's award of death benefits to the widow of a deceased workman.

The record shows that decedent, a pumper serving employer near Meeker, had under his charge approximately twenty-seven oil wells; that he worked five days a week, approximately eight hours a day; a co-pumper had an additional 30 or so wells to pump; that when his co-pumper...

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