Consolidated Freightways Corp. v. Continental Oil Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the amount of $22,200 entered on a jury verdict. The amount covered the loss to plaintiff as a result of an explosion and fire which destroyed plaintiff’s tanker truck while it was being unloaded in defendant’s terminal.

Plaintiff, respondent here, is a common carrier. Defendant, appellant here, maintains a terminal and bulk plant on the Yellowstone Pipeline at Helena where it stores, and unloads fuels. Plaintiff and defendant had a contractual relationship known as a “Keystop Loading Plan” whereby defendant trained truck drivers who loaded defendant’s…