Mabee v. Sutliff & Case Co.

On December 10,1945, Clarence M. Mabee, with the knowledge of his wife, Mary Mabee, ordered from Sutliff and Case Company of Peoria, two gallons of sulphuric acid. About three o’clock that afternoon an employee of the company delivered to the Mabee home in Peoria, two glass jugs each containing one gallon of this acid. Mrs. Mabee was at home and received these jugs and as she was carrying them through the dining room of her home, one jug broke and as a result thereof she was quite severely burned and the floor of the dining room injured. To recover for her personal injuries and for the damage…