Barker v. General Petroleum Corp.

STANFORD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a directed verdict of the superior court against appellants, and from the court’s order denying appellants’ motion to set aside the judgment and motion -for a new trial.

Appellants, plaintiffs in the action, owned and conducted a service station at Camp Verde, Arizona, and used products of the General Petroleum Corporation delivered to them by its agent, appellee W. F. Simpson, who had a wholesale agent’s contract with the appellee corporation to deliver and distribute its products in that territory. In the latter part of 1947,…