Stone v. Sinclair Refining Co.

Plaintiff brought this action under the survival act as administrator of the estate of his daughter, Gladys Stone, who was a child seven years old, to recover damages for her death alleged to have been caused by an explosion of gasoline negligently placed by defendant’s agent in a can not painted red nor marked “Gasoline,” as the law requires, and sold as kerosene. The story is told and the law settled for this case in Stone v. Sinclair Refining Co., 225 Mich. 344, 229 Mich. 103, 230 Mich. 472, involving the same explosion.

After the explosion Gladys was found under the kitchen sink fatally…