Legal Opinion
Stawasz v. Aetna Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided September 25, 1968No. Gen. 68-3PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Seidenfeld
Defendants, Aetna Insurance Company and Publicker Chemical Corporation, separately appeal from summary judgments entered against them.
Publicker operated a “tank farm,” an industrial operation in which inflammable substances such as naphtha, alcohol, and ketones were blended into various products and shipped out in steel drums. Stawasz was a foreman for Publicker. An employee of Publicker had given a drum, which had contained a chemical shipment to Publicker, to one Morgan. Stawasz was not present on the day this was done and had not authorized it. The drum given to Morgan exploded at his home…
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- Embree v. DeKalb Forge Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1964
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- Brockie v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1963
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