Guile v. La Crosse Gas & Electric Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: A. H. Reid, Judge. Tbis is an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by tbe plaintiff, Henry Marquardt, through an explosion of a mixture of gas and air in tbe purifying bouse of the defendant’s gas plant. It is claimed that the explosion was caused by the negligence of the defendant. The defendant made its gas from coal.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: A. H. Reid, Judge. Tbis is an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by tbe plaintiff, Henry Marquardt, through an explosion of a mixture of gas and air in tbe purifying bouse of the defendant’s gas plant. It is claimed that the explosion was caused by the negligence of the defendant. The defendant made its gas from coal. The gas is extracted from the coal by applying heat to the retort in which the coal is placed. When the gas has been extracted from a •charge of coal in a retort and it is desired to recharge…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 21, 1911:
Siebeckeh, J.
The finding of the jury that the explosion was caused by an electric spark is assailed by appellant as an impossibility under the evidentiary facts of the case, and it is argued that if it be assumed that the explosion could have been caused by such an electric spark then the verdict cannot stand because plaintiff’s evidence on this subject is inherently improbable and is impeached by the physical and undisputed facts in the ease, and it therefore can furnish m> basis for an inference that the explosion was caused in this way. The…
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