Hobbold v. Chicago Sugar Refining Co.

The appellee manufactured from corn, sugar, glucose, starch, dextrine and British gum. In making dextrine, corn starch, nitric acid and water mixed in shallow pans were cooked by putting the pans upon pipes filled with steam. These pipes occupied nearly the ivhole interior of a “ kiln.”

Steam had, until four or five days before the catastrophe which is the subject of inquiry in this suit, been used in the pipes at a pressure of fifty to sixty pounds; it was then increased to ninety pounds, if not more, which very considerably raised the temperature, the object being to cook in less time. Two…