Meeks v. Waggoner

On January 11, 1935, Ethel E. Smith and her husband, J. C. W. Smith, filed an action in the Lonoke Circuit Court against the Magnolia Petroleum Company, a foreign corporation, and against the petitioners, Jim Meeks and Ewell Smith, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, Ethel Smith, caused by their joint negligence in painting a strip across the sidewalk adjacent to a filling station, in the city of Little Rock, owned by the Magnolia Petroleum Company and operated by the petitioners as servants and employees, in that she stepped upon the wet…