Kieffer v. Blue Seal Chemical Co.

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This suit involves recovery of damages for personal injury in what is colloquially called a products liability case. The defendant manufactures a mixture for cleaning clogged drains. The plaintiff is a plumber. In the course of doing plumbing work in Minnesota, where he lives, he used some of the defendant’s product. While using it there was an explosion in which a quantity of corrosive material was blown out of the pipe upon which he was working and into the plaintiff’s face. He suffered exceedingly severe injuries which will, according to testimony, last the rest of…