Dye v. Rule

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This is an action for wrongful death. The jury answered special questions and returned a verdict for plaintiffs. Defendants moved for judgment in their favor on the answers to spécial questions notwithstanding the general verdict. The trial court sustained this motion, and plaintiffs have appealed.

In their petition plaintiffs allege that their son, Dee M. Dye, a boy of intelligence, in good health, and able-bodied, on the evening of January 9, 1932, was fatally burned by an explosion of denatured alcohol, or some other highly inflammable…