Welser v. United Gas Improvement Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

The question before us is, What was the proximate cause of the injuries sustained by the minor plaintiff when he was burned by the inflammable substance hereinafter referred to? Was it the act of defendant’s employees in burning this substance of the character of naptha and called “condensation,” in an uncovered bucket in a public street in the City of Philadelphia, or was it the act of a policeman who, seeing the. fire which had been lighted in the roadway in disobedience of a city ordinance, kicked it over toward the minor plaintiff, who was three or four feet…