Gorman v. Murphy Diesel Co.

Layton, Chief Justice:

These are general demurrers to declarations alleging substantially the same facts. It is alleged that the defendant was the manufacturer of internal combustion engines, commonly known as Diesel engines or motors; that such engines are imminently dangerous in that they operate through the explosion of vapors and gases produced by oil, which explosions if not controlled and confined by proper cylinders, pistons and other appliances will endanger the life and safety of persons in the vicinity of such engine; that the plaintiff was an employee of George A. Fuller Company and…