Sanders v. Carl Berry Oil Company

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Plaintiff, Elgin E. Sanders, has appealed from an adverse judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in his suit for $25,000 for personal injuries resulting from a fall.

On December 15, 1958, William Ray Spurgeon, an employee of defendant, Carl Berry Oil Company, delivered 1,500 gallons of fuel oil to the Fredric Hotel.' In the process of pumping the oil into a pipe re cessed behind an iron door of the hotel building about two gallons of the oil was spilled on the surface of a public alley which was located on the west side of the hotel. At 3:00 o’clock the following…