Lorie v. Standard Oil Co.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to one of five named defendants, C. F. Tyler & Son, Inc. (Tyler). The plaintiffs Lorie sued Tyler and others for injuries received when the plaintiff Rodolfo Lorie, a gasoline service station employee and trained Army medic, went into an earth excavation to assist a worker who had been buried by a cave-in while gasoline tanks were being installed. Other defendants removed from the case are the gasoline station lessor Barrett and the company which rented a back-hoe machine (Porter Huggins, Inc.). Remaining are…