Wellington Oil Co. v. Maffi

Mr. Judge Hickman,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

Nick A. Maffi was plaintiff in the trial court and Wellington Oil Company of Delaware, hereinafter sometimes called Wellington, and John T. O’Neil, its president, were defendants. Upon a verdict returned in obedience to a peremptory instruction, judgment was rendered in the trial court that plaintiff take nothing. That judgment was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals and the case remanded. 138 S. W. (2d) 134. In view of the instructed verdict, the Court of Civil Appeals in its opinion very properly stated…