Fleming v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co.

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This is an action for damages for wrongful death. There was similar tragic result in the recent case of Bradley v. Fowler, 210 S. C. 231, 42 S. E. (2d) 234. It is alleged in the amended complaint that plaintiff’s intestate died as the result of burns from an explosion when she lighted her kerosene cook stove. As indicated in the caption, there are three defendants, all wholesalers or jobbers of kerosene, and it is alleged that Arkansas Fuel sold the product to Service Oil, which in turn sold to Martin’s Oil Company which sold to a small retailer, Nelson’s Grocery. The…