Marx v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey

Donges, J.A.D., dissented. The learned trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant, Standard Oil Company, and the jury returned a verdict for the other defendant, Mildred Naught. From the judgment thereon, the plaintiff appeals. The action was brought for damages sustained by plaintiff as a result of falling into a grease pit in the automobile service station of which the Oil Company was the owner and Naught was lessee and operator. The plaintiff proved, or endeavored to prove, that the premises were so laid out that the pit is a danger to strangers entering the station.

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