Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Burrows
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Garland Circuit Court; A. M. Dueeie, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This action wás brought in the Garland Circuit Court by J. C. Burrows against Waters-Pierce Oil Co., Arkansas Gas Co., Chambers & Walker, Sam Mayer, and Leo Mayer, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by an explosion of gasoline vapor, which occured on the 24th day of December, 1902, in a building at Plot Springs known as the Turf Exchange, while gasoline was being delivered by an…
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Appeal from Garland Circuit Court; A. M. Dueeie, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This action wás brought in the Garland Circuit Court by J. C. Burrows against Waters-Pierce Oil Co., Arkansas Gas Co., Chambers & Walker, Sam Mayer, and Leo Mayer, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by an explosion of gasoline vapor, which occured on the 24th day of December, 1902, in a building at Plot Springs known as the Turf Exchange, while gasoline was being delivered by an employee of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company in a storage tank connected with a gas generating machine on the premises of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Battle, J.,
(after stating the facts.) In the impaneling of the jury in the case the trial court refused'to allow the Waters-Pierce Oil Company to peremptorily challenge three jurors. The appellant insists that the court erred. But we do not think so. The statutes expressly provide in civil cases that “each party shall have three peremptory challenges;” and that where there are several persons on the same side] the challenge of one shall be the challenge of all. All the defendants are not entitled in the aggregate to more than three peremptory- challenges. The statutes do not provide that they…
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