Gaddy v. Skelly Oil Co.

BARRETT, C.

Skelly Oil Company is the appellant from a $15,000 judgment in favor of Mrs. Julia Gaddy for the death of her husband, Clarence Gaddy. Mack Waldron and Clarence- Gaddy were employed by the Rhodes Hardware Company in Rolla as deliverymen, repairmen and installers of gas hot water [846] systems and other appliances. Rhodes Hardware was a distributor óf “Skelgas’-’ (liquefied petroleum gas, known as propane) and “Skelgas” appliances,- and on August 28th, 1950 entered into an agreement to supply cylinders of propane and the necessary appliances for the hot water heater in Mrs. Crane’s…