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STANDARD OIL CO. OF KY. v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO.

No. 26334.

421 F.2d 201 (1969)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF KENTUCKY, and C. H. Weathersby (Defendants and Counterclaimants), Appellants, v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY (Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant), Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 22, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Goodman, Jr., Elizabeth W. Grayson, Forrest B. Jackson, Jackson, Miss., for appellants.

Sherwood W. Wise, Richard B. Wilson, Wise, Carter & Child, Jackson, Miss., for appellee; Robert Mitten, J. W. Foster, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Before GEWIN and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges, and CHOATE, District Judge.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge.

This is, hopefully, the last chapter in litigation arising from a railroad crossing collision in the town of Magnolia, Mississippi, between a train of Illinois Central (IC) and a truck-tank rig loaded with petroleum products and driven by Morris Pigott. The truck was owned by Weathersby, a bulk agent for Standard Oil. The tank and the petroleum materials carried in it were owned by Standard Oil. Eight persons, including Pigott, were killed...

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