Crouch v. Noland

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner — ■

Reversing.

At the time of the accident which formed the basis of this suit for damages and a judgment for $1,500, the appellee, Stella Noland, had been employed for about 10 months by her uncle, the appellant, as a domestic servant in his home. It had been her practice to start the fire in the kitchen stove with kerosene. One day about two weeks before the accident, she observed her uncle starting a fire with crude petroleum under a kettle in the yard, and remarked that she “didn’t know that stuff was good to make a fire.” It seems that she then…