Standard Oil Co. v. Fordeck
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Porter Circuit Court; II. B. Tuthill, Judge. Action by Joseph Fordeck against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. From a judgment rendered on a¡ verdict for $1,800, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHenley, J.
This was an action commenced by appellee against appellant to recover damages for an injury received by appellee through the alleged negligence of the appellant. The complaint was in two paragraphs. The averments of the first paragraph of complaint are substantially as follows: That appellant is a corporation engaged in the business of refining oil at the town of Whiting, Lake county, Indiana, and employs in such .business about 1,500 workmen; that it uses in its business about two *183hundred stills for refining crude oil; that these stills are cylindrical in form, being twelve to fifteen feet…
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