Henry H. Cross Co. v. Simmons

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action at law brought by appellee, as administrator of the estate of Charles Austin Soars, deceased, to recover damages for the death of Charles Austin Soars, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of appellant. The parties will be referred to as they appeared below.

The complaint alleges an invitation to the deceased “to come to the plant of the defendant at Smackover, Arkansas, for consultation and advice about certain refining operations and constructions,” and that while there as such invitee he received injuries from which he subsequently died.…