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- Title: Traders & Gen. Ins. Co. v. Shoemake
- Author : United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit
- Release Date : January 29, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and BRATTON and HUXMAN, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam Trigg Drilling Company was engaged in the drilling of a deep well in Oklahoma. A. J. Alexander and J. R. Townsend, employees of the company, were working at the well. Ernest L. Shoemake and Ernest L. Shoemake, Jr., were co-partners engaged in business as Shoemake Butane Company. While butane gas was being delivered from a truck owned by Shoemake Butane Company to a storage tank at the well an explosion occurred and Alexander and Townsend sustained personal injuries. An award was made to each of the injured workmen under the Workmen's Compensation Act of the state. Traders & General Insurance Company, the insurance carrier of Trigg Drilling Company, paid the awards and thereafter instituted this action against Ernest L. Shoemake and Ernest L. Shoemake, Jr., to recover as damages the amounts it has paid. The issues as finally joined were negligence of the defendants and contributory negligence on the part of Alexander and Townsend. The cause was tried to a jury; a verdict in favor of the defendants was returned; judgment was entered accordingly; and the plaintiff appealed.