Ardesco Oil Co. v. Gilson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county: No. 29, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action on the case for negligence, brought March 29th 1867, by John P. Gilson against the Ardesco Oil Company. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants, as carpenter, at their oil-mills, and by the explosion of two of their stills he was badly injured; this suit was brought to recover compensation for the injury.
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Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county: No. 29, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action on the case for negligence, brought March 29th 1867, by John P. Gilson against the Ardesco Oil Company. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants, as carpenter, at their oil-mills, and by the explosion of two of their stills he was badly injured; this suit was brought to recover compensation for the injury. The case was tried January 11th 1869, before Kirkpatrick, J. A. T. Schmidt, superintendent of defendants, testified for plaintiff : that plaintiff worked about 150 feet…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1870, by
Sharswood, J. —
The first four errors assigned are to the answers to the points and to the charge of the learned judge in the court below in this, that, without any, or sufBcient evidence, he left it to the jury to determine whether the injury which the plaintiff below had sustained from the explosion of two oil stills in the oil refinery establishment of the defendants had resulted from their negligence.
The defendants were a corporation, and could only act through their officers or agents. It is their officer, having charge of their…
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