Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. v. Kendall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract or tort, with a count in each, to recover $5,-634.41 paid by the plaintiff to certain of its employees injured by an explosion of naphtha vapor caused by a defect in the door of a boiler made by the defendants.
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Contract or tort, with a count in each, to recover $5,-634.41 paid by the plaintiff to certain of its employees injured by an explosion of naphtha vapor caused by a defect in the door of a boiler made by the defendants. Writ dated October 21, 1898. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., it appeared, that the plaintiff was a manufacturer of rubber goods of all kinds in Cambridge, and that the defendants were manufacturers of boilers also in Cambridge; that the plaintiff ordered of the defendants an iron boiler known as a vulcanizer which would stand a working pressure of one…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is an action to recover damages which the plaintiff had to pay to its employees for personal, injuries caused by an explosion of a boiler made by the defendants. The facts may be stated in a few words. The defendants, who were first class boiler makers, undertook to make for the plaintiff a boiler which would stand a working pressure of one hundred pounds, and, on the plaintiff’s testimony, understood that the boiler was to be used to contain naphtha vapor for experiments in devulcanizing india rubber. An experiment was tried, and, at a pressure of less than one hundred pounds, the…
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