McLeod Ex Rel. McLeod v. Linde Air Products Co.

-This is a suit for personal injuries, alleged to haYe been received by plaintiff as a result of the negligence of defendant. The facts are as follows:

Plaintiff is the son of John McLeod, who, on the 9th of January, 1917, and for nine years prior. thereto, operated a welding shop in Kansas City, Missouri, under the name of the Oxy-Acetylene Welding Company. The defendant manufactured oxygen, and during the eight months prior to plaintiff’s injury had sold about one hundred tanks of oxygen to plaintiff’s father for use in his welding business. The oxygen was delivered in steel tanks of two…