Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana v. Webb

On the trial of the case in the lower court there was a 'verdict and judgment in favor of the appellee from which this appeal is duly and properly prosecuted.

The principal questions raised and argued relate to the refusal of the trial court- to direct a verdict in favor of the appellant. The requested instruction was based on the contentions that appellee’s injury was the result of his own want of care, and the result of the risk assumed by him. There is no contention that the evidence accepted by the jury was not of a substantial nature and • sufficient to sustain the verdict, but the…