FLICK v. CROUCH

No. 45326.

555 P.2d 1274 (1976)

Melba Jean FLICK, Administratrix of the Estate of Ray Louis Flick, Deceased, Appellant, v. Elmer CROUCH, d/b/a Crouch Welding Service, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rinehart, Cooper & Stewart, Oklahoma City, Frank Seay, Dick Bell, Seminole, for appellant.

McKinney, Stringer & Webster, by Kenneth N. McKinney, Jack O'Toole, Fred Black, Loyd Benefield, Savage, Gibson, Benefield & Shelton, Robert D. Epperson, Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneau & Moon, Gary C. Bechman, Rhodes, Hieronymus, Holloway & Wilson, Oklahoma City, for appellees.

Elmer Crouch, pro se.

A.L. McLeary, pro se.


BARNES, Justice:

The parties herein have filed briefs dealing with the question of the applicability of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to establish prima facie negligence against multiple defendants who had done welding in relegging a drilling rig shortly before its collapse resulting in the death of Appellant's decedent.

The pertinent facts are as hereinafter related. Decedent, Ray Louis Flick, employed by Parker Drilling Company as a roughneck, was killed...

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