Shell Oil Company v. Collar

BERNSTEIN, Justice.

Defendant, the Shell Oil Company, appeals from a $30,000 judgment entered against it in the superior court of Yuma County, and submits that the judgment should be reversed with the trial court instructed to enter judgment for defendant, or that the judgment should be reversed and the superior court be instructed to grant its motions for a new trial.

Plaintiff named three defendants in her complaint. After her case in chief was presented to the jury the superior court granted Butane Corporation’s motion for a directed verdict. The motion to dismiss Tate and Hobart Gas and…