NATIONAL COMPRESSOR CORPORATION v. CARROW

Nos. 19503, 19504.

417 F.2d 97 (1969)

NATIONAL COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, Appellee, v. Chester P. CARROW, Harold D. McGee, Rayburn Roy Williams, Frank Spradling, John Hemphill, Jr., and Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company, Appellant. NATIONAL COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, Appellee, v. Chester P. CARROW, Harold D. McGee, Appellants, Rayburn Roy Williams, Frank Spradling, Appellant, John Hemphill, Jr., and Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

October 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Lippert, St. Louis, Mo., for Missouri Pac. R. Co., James A. Hesse, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Morton K. Lange, St. Louis, Mo., for Chester P. Carrow, Harold D. McGee and Frank Spradling, Leo C. DeVoto, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., and E. L. McClintock, Jr., Flat River, Mo., on the brief.

John L. Davidson, Jr., of Greenfield, Davidson & Mandelstamm, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee, Jerome R. Mandelstamm, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, and LAY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.


VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.

In this case National Compressor Corporation, on the basis of tort liability, obtained a judgment upon a jury verdict against the defendants Williams, Carrow, McGee, Spradling and Missouri Pacific Railroad Company1 for $12,000 for the negligent destruction by fire of a compressor in which plaintiff asserted ownership. Jurisdiction, based upon diversity of citizenship, is established. Defendant Williams has...

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