Legal Opinion
Wallace v. Porter DeWitt Construction Company
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided December 23, 1971No. 9117PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TITUS, Presiding Judge.
James Wallace, an employee of Ross Oil Company (Ross), was fatally injured when the tank truck he was driving overturned after striking a gravel pile on Highway 34 in Wayne County. At the time of the casualty, the highway was closed to the public and was in the throes of construction by Porter DeWitt Construction Company (DeWitt) under an agreement with the Missouri State Highway Commission. Ross, a local jobber for Sinclair Refining Company, had contracted with DeWitt to unit fill its equipment with fuel on the job site; Wallace, on behalf of Ross, was in the process…
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