Legal Opinion
Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co. v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1950No. 14046PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.
The judgment here appealed from awarded recovery to each of the several plaintiffs in the action for damages occasioned to them respectively by a fire which injured one of the plaintiffs bodily and destroyed property of the others. The fire was started during the cooking of family dinner by flames coming out of the oven of the oil cook stove in which biscuits were being baked. The flames went forward when the oven door was opened and injured the plaintiff who was attending to the cooking, and backward through vents in the oven to the wallpaper right behind the stove,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Wesson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1949
- Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. MouberCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Williams v. Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1949
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Heekin Can Co. v. KimbroughDistrict Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1961
- Holland v. KittermanCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1971
- The Arena Company, a Minnesota Corporation, and Hardware Mutual Insurance Company of Minnesota, a Minnesota Corporation v. Minneapolis Gas Company, a Delaware Corporation, A. A. Bennett, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, Northwestern Fire & Marine Insurance Company, a Minnesota Corporation, Badger Mutual Insurance Company, a Wisconsin Corporation, Underwriters Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation, and General Insurance Company of America, a Washington Corporation v. Minneapolis Gas Company, a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956