Salsberry v. Archibald Plbg. & Heat. Co., Inc.

Plaintiffs, remarried widow and nine minor children, received a verdict for $50,000 damages in a claim for the wrongful death of their husband and father, Ernest E. Sals-berry, which occurred as the result of an explosion on June 19,1969. From the ensuing judgment, defendant Archibald Plumbing & Heating Company, whose negligence in causing or permitting the escape of natural gas is claimed to have caused the explosion and resulting death, has appealed to this court.

We affirm the judgment.

The explosion occurred in Building No. 9, one of several apartment buildings under construction in a…