Allison v. Ideal Laundry & Cleaners

Tayeor, Justice.

This case arises out of one of the most catastrophic occurrences in the State of South Carolina, certainly within the memory of this generation.

On the late afternoon of November 19, 1946, a terrific explosion took place on the premises of the Ideal Laundry and Cleaners, one of the respondents in this case, located in Greenville, S. C.

From the record it appears that prior to November 1946, the boilers of the Laundry had been fired with coal. Shortly prior to the explosion the proprietors of the Laundry, for the purposes of efficiency and no doubt in some part influenced by the…