Interstate Compress Co. v. Agnew
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Tn Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma ; J olm H. Cotteral, Judge. Action by J. W. Agnew against the Interstate Compress Company, judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action by J. W. Agnew to recover of Interstate Compress Company, a corporation, damages which he alleges -were inflicted upon him by the gross negligence of the defendant in providing equipment for its compress platform and plant, and in maintaining in efficient condition such equipment to prevent fire, which, on November 16, 1916, destroyed a large part of its plant and 294 bales of the plaintiff’s cotton, -which was on the defendant’s compress platform. The parties stipulated to the effect that if the defendant’s gross negligence was the proximate cause of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Interstate Compress Co. v. AgnewCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1919
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