Hall v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

FORD, Chief Judge.

This action was filed in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Kentucky, and thereafter removed to this Court where trial was had without a jury.

The plaintiff, Sherman Hall, an oil well drilling contractor, seeks to recover of the defendant, E. I. duPont deNemours & Company, the sum of $10,000 as damages to his drilling machine and equipment resulting from a fire that started shortly after the shooting by the defendant, on November 23, 1954, of an oil well belonging to the Lee Oil Company in Lee County, Kentucky. The complaint alleges that “the defendant, E.' I. duPont deNemours…