Willie E. Garrett v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware

LAYTON, District Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a verdict in favor of the defendant in an action where plaintiff was badly burned by sulfuric acid as he was attempting to pour it out of a 55 gallon metal drum. Defendant had shipped the drum to plaintiff’s employer, Otto B. May Co., by an intrastate shipment. The drum had been lying in plaintiff’s employer’s plant for twenty days when the accident occurred. It was the duty of the plaintiff, when required to do so, to draw off designated amounts of sulfuric acid from metal drums. While he was so engaged, he claims a defective…