Standard Oil Company v. Harris

In Bolden v. Barnes, 117 Ga. App. 862 (162 SE2d 307) Barnes’ widow sued Bolden in a death action, alleging that Bolden’s employee was negligent in blowing air into the gas line of Barnes’ car while Barnes was removing the gas cap. The Court of Appeals held that: “The evidence shows that the cause of decedent’s death was his removal of the gas cap simultaneously with the application of compressed air to the fuel line by the defendant’s employee which caused gasoline to spew out at the cap onto the decedent and into his eyes, causing him to retreat backwards into the kerosene heater and…