James McNeil & Brother Co. v. Crucible Steel Co. of America
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 34, Oct. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1902, No. 185, on verdict for plaintiff in case of James McNeil & Brother Company v. Crucible Steel Company of America. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s property. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict-and judgment for plaintiff for $46,746.94. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 34, Oct. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1902, No. 185, on verdict for plaintiff in case of James McNeil & Brother Company v. Crucible Steel Company of America. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s property. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict-and judgment for plaintiff for $46,746.94. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Plaintiff owned and operated a steel plate mill in the city of Pittsburg; immediately adjoining was the manufacturing plant of the Park Steel Company, which it was averred by plaintiff was controlled and managed by defendant, the Crucible Steel Company. On December 20,1901, about four o’clock in the afternoon, there was a disastrous explosion of three tubular boilers in the Park Steel Company’s mill. Besides the damage to the Park Company’s mill, it destroyed much of the machinery and a large part of the building of the plaintiff’s plate mill. The exploded boilers…
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