Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky v. Noakes

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were tbe defendants below in a suit for personal injuries, and appeal from *898a judgment on a verdiet for damages in favor of the appellee as plaintiff. Aside from a question as to relationship of master and servant between the driver of a motortruck and the defendant Standard Oil Company, which in view of our conclusions we need not decide,, and a procedural question which will be hereafter dismissed, the point involved in the appeal is whether plaintiff’s contributory negligence required the direction of a verdiet in defendants’ favor.

There is not much dispute…