Gilbert v. Gulf Oil Corporation

LEIBELL, District Judge.

Plaintiff sues the defendant in tort claiming that through the defendant’s negligence in delivering gasoline at plaintiff’s warehouse, locatéd at Lynchburg, Virginia, the warehouse took fire and was destroyed with most of its contents. The complaint alleges four claims or causes of action. Plaintiff seeks damages in the first cause of action in the sum of $41,899.10 for the destruction of plaintiff’s warehouse; in the second, $3,602.40 for damages to plaintiff’s merchandise and fixtures; in the third, $300,000 for damages to the property of plaintiff’s customers whose…