Standard Oil Co. v. Parkinson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
On October 27,1904, J. D. Perry drove his team, attached to a wagon of the Standard Oil Company loaded with oil and gasoline, upon a crossing of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, where an engine of that corporation driven by John C. Parkinson collided with it. The gasoline and oil took fire and burned the engineer so that he died. Rosa Parkinson, his widow and the administratrix of his estate, brought this action against the oil company for causal negligence. She averred that Perry was one of the company’s servants, that he negligently drove his team…
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