Morgan v. G & N Tank Trucking Co.

DEVINE, J. pro tem. *

The appellants in this cause are the plaintiffs, against whom judgment was rendered by the trial judge sitting without a jury. Plaintiffs were the owners of a tractor and trailer oil tank, which they rented to defendant, a copartnership, for the purpose of storing road oil needed on a construction job near Hayfork, California. The road construction was being done by N. W. Ball and Sons, a corporation or copartnership, but respondent performed two functions in connection with it, namely, storing of oil in the rented tank trailer, and doing part of the work of spreading the…