Petrol Corporation v. Curtis

Ernest G. Curtis, a truck driver, instituted this action in tort against Petrol Corporation to recover for personal injuries which he sustained while helping to fill an oil truck in defendant’s Canton storage yard in Baltimore. As plaintiff received workmen’s compensation from Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, insurer of M. I. O’Boyle & Son, of Washington, his employers, he brought this suit both for himself and to the use of the insurer. He recovered a judgment for $8,000, from which defendant appealed.

It was shown at the trial that plaintiff climbed on top of the truck and put a…