Sun Oil Co. v. Kneten

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Fred Henry Kneten, son of the plaintiffs, Caroline and Henry Kneten, was scalded to death by steam injected into a boiler inside of which he was working, as an employee and member of the crew of Jeff J. Allen, a boiler maker, who had made a contract with appellant to clean, repair, and generally overhaul a battery of three boilers belonging to appellant.

Appellant, on the date of the accident, was operating a drilling rig, the power for which was furnished by a battery of three gas-heated steam boilers numbered 33, 35, and 34, and placed in the order of those numbers in…