Rynearson v. McCartney

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of $2,500 rendered on a jury trial in an action on the case for a personal injury to the plaintiff caused by an explosion of gasoline vapor in a room in which she was employed by them doing their family ironing with a gasoline laundry iron. Her claim is based on an alleged failure of the defendants to warn her of such danger in the use of gasoline, of which danger she says she was ignorant. It is defended on the ground that she represented herself to understand the nature of gasoline and how to fill and operate the iron, and that she was,…