FISHER v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORP.

Docket No. 19653.

123 Cal.App.2d 770 (1954)

267 P.2d 841

DOVIE ZOE FISHER, Respondent, v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (a Corporation) et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

March 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reynolds, Painter & Cherniss, Howard Painter, Richard C. Heaton, D.W. Woods, J.M. Jessen and Olive E. Boswell, for Appellants.

M. Arthur Waite and James C. Hollingsworth for Respondent.


McCOMB, J.

From a judgment in favor of plaintiff after trial before a jury in an action to recover damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff's husband, defendants appeal.

Viewing the evidence as we must in the light most favorable to plaintiff (respondent) the essential facts are these:

On December 26, 1950, defendant General Petroleum Corporation entered into a writing with Southern California Gas Company reading in part as follows:

"Grantor...

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