Coakley v. Prentiss-Wabers Stove Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Columbia county: Cpiester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for injuries sustained as the result of the explosion of the gasoline container of a portable gasoline stove.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Columbia county: Cpiester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for injuries sustained as the result of the explosion of the gasoline container of a portable gasoline stove. The complaint set out that defendant was the manufacturer of a certain gasoline stove called the “Auto Kamp Kook Kitthat it sold one of its stoves to the Yahr & Lange Drug Company, a wholesaler, of Milwaukee; that the wholesaler sold it to M. H. Stuelki, a retailer,, of Kilbourn, Wisconsin; and that Stuelki sold the stove to Henry Field,-a son-in-law of plaintiff. It…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed October 16, 1923:
Jones, J.
At the trial most of the testimony related to the question whether the method of fastening the cap to the container was the proper method, or whether it was one which should have been known by the defendant to be dangerous in view of the kinds of use to be expected. When the parts of the stove were received from the manufacturer by defendant they were assembled and connected together and skilled mechanics were not employed for that purpose.
*98There was a large amount of testimony as to the manner in which the cap> was soldered to the…
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