Carter v. Marshall Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — Joseph J. Clark, Judge. Action for damages consequent on being burned as the result of an explosion, resulted in judgment against the defendant, from which it appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
The defendant was engaged in the sale and delivery of kerosene, gasoline, and naphtha, with headquarters at Marshalltown, and had established an agency at Clear Lake, with B. C. Belding as agent. On December 5, 1914, A. E. Carter directed the agent or representative of the defendant company to place in a galvanized, unpainted can on his farm 50 or 60 gallons of kerosene. Fred Gentry had requested him to deliver gasoline at the same place, and Belding loaded in his motor truck such an *418amount of gasoline and kerosene as seemed sufficient to fill the two orders. In the afternoon, he drove to…
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