Duffey v. General Petroleum Corp.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, brought this action against defendant corporation for injuries to their premises alleged to have been sustained as the result of the contamination of their water supply by gasoline spilled by defendant’s employee when delivering gasoline to such premises to fill a 50-gallon tank maintained by plaintiffs for general use thereon. The original complaint, filed March 17, 1948, alleged damages in the sum of $2,100. Defendant denied any damage whatsoever.

At the beginning of the trial, on October 19, 1948, plaintiffs’ counsel moved to amend the complaint 'by increasing…