Redwing Carriers, Inc. v. Knight

Webb, Judge.

At the core of this personal injury litigation is the physical property of hot liquid asphalt, or "resin,” to congeal when cooled to a temperature of 190° F. The asphalt was transported in a tanker truck of defendant Redwing Carriers from Jacksonville, Florida to the Johns-Manville plant in Savannah, and plaintiff Kenneth Knight, an employee at the plant, was sprayed with hot asphalt when one of Redwing’s hoses burst during the unloading operation. While virtually every aspect of this occurrence was in dispute at trial, the witnesses agreed that the asphalt would not flow through…