Collins Co. v. Rowe

OSBORNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Collins Company from a judgment of the Cumberland Circuit Court in favor of Harry Rowe and his wife, Katie, in the total amount of $115,000 for injuries suffered by the appellees as a result of overexposure to carbon monoxide gas. The gas emanated from a gas refrigerator sold by the appellant, Collins Company, to the appellees and installed by them on a houseboat which they owned and kept on Dale Hollow Lake. It is contended upon this appeal that the judgment should be reversed on two grounds: first, that the injury was brought about by an intervening…