Kidd v. Price

CLAY, Commissioner.

Plaintiff appellant’s decedent died as the result of burns sustained in an explosion which occurred on premises owned by defendant • appellees. The jury found for defendants. The principal alleged reversible error is that the court erroneously instructed the jury. *

The place of the accident was a restaurant leased by one Kizzee from defendants since 1957.. The deceased was an employee of Kizzee. He was fatally burned when an explosion occurred in the kitchen area. There was evidence, and the jury specifically found, that the cause of the explosion was gasoline vapors. There…