Perry v. Standard Oil Co.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs filed an action at law in the state court against the Standard Oil Company, a citizen of Kentucky, and li. R. Garnett, a citizen of Mississippi, claiming damages for the wrongful death of their husband and father, who was burned, and died from the injuries, when a lamp exploded by reason of illicit oil sold and delivered by defendants to a country merchant who, in turn, sold it for household purposes of illumination. It was alleged that the substance was too inflammable for kerosene, as defined by specifications of the Gasoline Inspection Act of 1930, in…