Arkansas Fuel Oil Company v. Scaletta

Gladys Watts, Jayme Bright, and Doris Ann Soaletta 1 each recovered judgment for $3,000 to compensate personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision. When the court overruled the defendant’s motion for a new trial it reduced to $568 the judgment in favor of Gladys Watts, and to $500 the judgment in favor of Jayme Bright.

The appeal is from the court’s action in accepting the jury’s findings that Homer Smith was a servant of Arkansas Fuel Oil Company; that Charles Lewis, at the time the collision occurred, was engaged in business pertaining to operation of the filling station leased by…