United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Action by Van Britt and wife against the United Zinc & Chemical Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
The defendants in error, Van and Susie Britt, residents and citizens .of Missouri, who were plaintiffs below, recovered a judgment against plaintiff in error for their damages on account of the deaths of their two sons Edward and Allen, eight and eleven years old, which occurred in July, 1916. Plaintiff in error owned and operated, at Iola, Kansas, a plant at which it manufactured sul-phuric acid and zinc spelter. It owned and still owns the tract (about 20 acres) in the outskirts of the town on which the buildings were situated, but in 1910 it tore them down, moved the…
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