Potter v. Pure Oil Co.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to plaintiffs’ evidence and judgment dismissing their action.

The parties will be referred to as in the trial court.

On July 2, 1935, Eugene Potter then nine years old, the son of plaintiffs, lost his life by drowning in a water-circulating tank about 16 or 18 feet in diameter, and about eight feet in depth, kept and maintained by defendant and used in connection with the operation of an oil well on premises leased and being operated by defendant. Tbis action is to recover for tbe resulting damage, viz., alleged loss of services of the…