FIELDS v. ROSS OIL COMPANY

Nos. 15837-15840.

250 F.2d 498 (1957)

Walter FIELDS, Appellant, v. ROSS OIL COMPANY, a corporation, and Ernest Clifford Mahan, Appellees. Nicky REICHERT, a minor, by his next friend, Alyce W. Reichert, Appellant, v. ROSS OIL COMPANY, a corporation, and Ernest Clifford Mahan, Appellees. Norman Faye McCONNEL, James A. Sams, and Donald Lee Sams, by their next friend, George Fields, Appellants, v. ROSS OIL COMPANY, a corporation, and Ernest Clifford Mahan, Appellees. Homer REICHERT and Alyce W. Reichert, Appellants, v. ROSS OIL COMPANY, a corporation, and Ernest Clifford Mahan, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

December 30, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. B. Russell and L. D. Joslyn, Charleston, Mo. (Joslyn & Joslyn, Charleston, Mo., were with them on the brief), for appellants.

Allen L. Oliver, Cape Girardeau, Mo. (Jack L. Oliver and Oliver & Oliver, Cape Girardeau, Mo., were with him on the brief) for appellees.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and VOGEL, Circuit Judges.


VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought these four suits to recover damages for injuries and death arising out of an automobile accident on October 14, 1955, in which a truck owned by defendant Ross Oil Company and driven by defendant Ernest Clifford Mahan collided with an automobile owned and operated by Mrs. Margaret Penrod in which Mrs. Effie Fields and Nicky Homer Reichert were riding. Both Mrs. Fields and Mrs. Penrod were killed in the accident and Nicky Homer...

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