Williams v. Ballenger

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The plaintiff’s petition shows that he purchased from the defendants a two-burner oil heater, which was delivered to him in an open package and was placed and installed in his house by the defendant Harper, who represented it to be a new heater and suited for the purpose of heating his house, and who showed him how to operate it, during which demonstration the heater was lighted 'and allowed to burn for about twenty minutes. Some fifteen days thereafter, the plaintiff lighted the heater for the first time subsequent to. its delivery, and it exploded and…