PERRY v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 7916.

15 F.Supp. 563 (1936)

PERRY et al. v. STANDARD OIL CO. et al.

District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

July 28, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbour & Henry, of Yazoo City, Miss., and Johnson & White, of Lexington, Miss., for plaintiffs.

G. G. Lyell, of Jackson, Miss., and A. M. Pepper, of Lexington, Miss., for defendants.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs filed an action at law in the state court against the Standard Oil Company, a citizen of Kentucky, and H. R. Garnett, a citizen of Mississippi, claiming damages for the wrongful death of their husband and father, who was burned, and died from the injuries, when a lamp exploded by reason of illicit oil sold and delivered by defendants to a country merchant who, in turn, sold it for household purposes of illumination. It was alleged...

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