American Glycerin Co. v. Kenridge Oil Co.

The appeal is from a judgment against appellants, American Glycerin Company and Nelson Mosier, the “shooter” employed by it, for damages accrued to the appeliees by reason of the premature explosion of a nitroglycerin shell while same was being 'lowered into an oil well drilled by ap-pellees. The facts show that the well was approximately 3,147 feet deep; that oil was standing about 2,000 feet in the hole, and that it was making 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day. Three shells, each containing 30 quarts of nitroglycerin, had been securely landed by the “shooter” in the bottom of the hole…