Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Pierce

TEEHEE, C.

In the court below J. O. Pierce, plaintiff, in an action in tort, recovered a judgment of $875 by a jury verdict against the Magnolia Petroleum Company, defendant.

Plaintiff alleged that he suffered personal and property injuries through a collision of defendant’s automobile truck, negligently operated by Stanley Neiswander and Charley Cunningham, the agents and employees of defendant, with plaintiff’s buggy, in which he was traveling on a public highway in Pittsburg county.

Defendant denied the alleged relationship between it and Neiswander and Cunningham, and further interposed the…