Anderson v. London Guarantee & Accident Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

George Anderson, whose widow is plaintiff in the present proceeding, was killed by an explosion on August 25, 1924, while engaged in erecting a coal ship hoist at the plant of the Sunbury Converting Works for the Beaumont Company, his employer. With fellow servants of the latter he was at work some distance from a boiler recently put in place by another independent contractor, Badenhausen, which at the time had not however been fully tested nor accepted by the purchaser. On the S Rturday preceding the accident the work on it was com pleted, and the two vents on…