Legal Opinion
Standard Oil Company v. Mrs. Josephine Foster, as Guardian Ad Litem for Harry L. Cookson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1960No. 18096PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment in the amount of $150,000 for personal injuries suffered by Harry L. Cookson. 1 2On August 28, 1956, Cookson was an employee of the corporate lessee-operator 2 of a Standard Oil Company service station in Miami, Florida. He was underneath an automobile which had been hoisted on a grease rack. The grease rack safety flaps 3 failed, and the car rolled off the rack, crushing Cookson’s head.
The evidence showed that the failure of the safety flaps to function properly was caused by improper maintenance of the moving parts of the grease rack; that…
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