George v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for defendant directed at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence in their action for damages resulting from defendant’s alleged negligence in shooting plaintiffs’ oil well in Wabash county, Illinois.

The amended complaint on which the case was tried alleges that pursuant to an oral agreement whereby defendant agreed to shoot plaintiffs’ well, defendant placed in the well 20 quarts of nitroglycerin, a cave catcher and a time bomb allegedly set to explode the nitroglycerin at 11:40 a. m. the following day, September 28,1947; that shortly before…