Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Jenkins

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

In June, 1934, Roy O. Jenkins, an employee of the Phillips Petroleum Company residing in Arkansas, sued that company and Joe H. Myers, a locally resident coemployee, in the circuit court of Ouachita county, Ark., for damages for personal injury occasioned by negligence and obtained judgment for $50,000, which was modified on appeal to the Supreme Court of the state in May, 1935, by reducing the amount to $30,000. A further appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States resulted in affirmance of the judgment in that amount. 297 U.S. 629, 56 S.Ct. 611, 80 L.Ed. 943.…