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- Title: Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company v. Roger M. Olson
- Author : El Paso No. 6124 The Eighth Court of Civil Appeals
- Release Date : January 20, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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This is a workman's compensation case. The trial before a jury resulted in a judgment awarding appellee benefits for total and permanent disability. This is a heart attack case. Mental stimulus was the cause of the attack, and excessive physical strain is not involved. The claimant, Roger Olson, was forty-six years of age at the time of the heart attack and had been in good health all of his working life, which was as a general oil field laborer. In 1961 he started working in the more technical position of a well logger. That job ordinarily requires that the logger catch, wash and describe drill cuttings, after which an accurate report of the findings is made. The work is usually done in a trailer-house at the oil well site. For over three years Mr. Olson, the claimant, had been working for Permian Logging Company, and on February 27, 1968 he was called upon to replace his superior on a well in Ward County, and he worked there for a total of nine days. To establish the causal connection, Mr. Olson testified that the well was being drilled into a formation at a depth of about 8,000 feet and was at the time in a non-producing zone. This formation was logged by Olson as anhydrite, and on March 4th, at the insistence of the operator of the well, the claimant's superior advised him to change the classification of the formation to Delaware Sand. Olson agreed to do as instructed and, as a result, was required to go back and change several hundred feet of log. This disturbed Olson as he felt it reflected on his professional ability, and it made him upset and very nervous, as a wrong call could affect future employment. It bothered him to the extent that he had a sample of the cuttings examined by an independent geologist who, in turn, confirmed Olson's belief that he had made a correct call. This did not produce any visible outburst on the part of Mr. Olson, but the annoyance remained on his mind, both at his home and at his work, until the time of his heart attack.
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