Honeycutt v. Moore's Supreme Oil Company

HEFLIN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is taken by the plaintiff from a final judgment rendered against him and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. Appeal counsel for the appellant-plaintiff Morris Honeycutt did not participate in the trial below.

This case had its genesis in the gasoline shortages of the past two years. Appellant Morris Honeycutt (Plaintiff) was the operator of a Moore’s Supreme Oil filling station located on U. S. Highway 31 in Shelby County. This filling station was one of' many operated by the corporate defendant Moore’s Supreme Service Stations, Inc., of which the…