Hazard Powder Co. v. Volger
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. At Law. Action by Schultz Yolger against the Hazard Powder Company for damages resulting from the explosion of defendant’s powder magazine. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
This was an action brought by Schultz Volger, the defendant in error, against the Hazard Powder Company, the plaintiff in error. The pleadings in the case are extremely prolix and redundant. The substance of the complaint is that tíre plaintiff was in the lawful possession of a parcel of real estate, and a dwelling house situated thereon, in the city of Cheyenne, and that the defendant, in violation of an ordinance of the city, erected and maintained therein a powder magazine, situated near by the plaintiff’s house, in which it stored and kept a large quantity of…
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