PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. JENKINS

No. 10859.

91 F.2d 183 (1937)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. et al. v. JENKINS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 28, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rayburn L. Foster, of Bartlesville, Okl. (R. H. Hudson, of Bartlesville, Okl., Marsh & Marsh and Mahony & Yocum, all of El Dorado, Ark., and Franklin E. Kennamer, Jr., of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellants.

Robert C. Knox, of El Dorado, Ark. (L. B. Smead, of Camden, Ark., and J. V. Spencer, of El Dorado, Ark., on the brief), for appellee.

Before WOODROUGH, THOMAS, and FARIS, Circuit Judges.


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...

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