Benlehr v. Shell Oil Co.

Plaintiffs sustained serious burns over a significant portion of their bodies in an explosion and fire occurring on the premises of an automobile service station in Wilmington, Ohio. The lawsuits which followed these injuries joined as defendants the individual lessee of the service station, one Harley Doss; the Shell Oil Company, whose products were sold at the station; and the appellee herein, Landrum Oil, Inc., the lessor of the service station premises and a distributor or jobber for the Shell Oil Company. Prior to trial, the Shell Oil Company settled its differences with the plaintiffs…