Gibson Oil Company v. Bush

Giving the evidence its strongest probative value in favor of the verdict and judgment, which we must do, the facts are correctly stated by counsel for appellee as follows:

J. W. Bush, plaintiff below, sued the Gibson Oil Company, appellant herein, in the Franklin County Circuit Court, to recover damages for the loss of a stock of merchandise and fixtures by fire on the evening of September 29, 1925, caused by an explosion of so-called coal-oil. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $3,000, the value of the property destroyed. Bush was engag-ed in the general mercantile…