Fleet Transport Company, Inc. v. Carroll C. Mullis and Phillip Wayne Cline

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action, Phillip Wayne Cline and Carroll C. Mullis appeal from orders denying their motions for a directed verdict and from a judgment entered on a jury verdict indemnifying Fleet Transport Company, Inc. (Fleet) for $15,560.00. Finding no error, we affirm.

I

In September, 1977, Cline and Fleet entered into a written lease agreement in which Cline agreed to lease to Fleet tractors for hauling freight trailers. The agreement stated that Cline would provide and compensate “qualified employees” as drivers and would pay for all “taxes, charges, benefits,…