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STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. FOSTER

No. 18096.

280 F.2d 912 (1960)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mrs. Josephine FOSTER, as Guardian ad Litem for Harry L. Cookson, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Dyer, L. L. Robinson, Miami, Fla., Louis S. Bonsteel, Miami, Fla., Smathers Thompson & Dyer, Miami, Fla., of counsel, for appellant.

Sam Daniels, Walter H. Beckham, Jr., William S. Frates, Miami, Fla., Nichols, Gaither, Green, Frates & Beckham, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in the amount of $150,000 for personal injuries suffered by Harry L. Cookson.1 On August 28, 1956, Cookson was an employee of the corporate lessee-operator2 of a Standard Oil Company service station in Miami, Florida. He was underneath an automobile which had been hoisted on a grease rack. The grease rack safety flaps3 failed, and...

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