Amsterdam v. E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 292, Oct. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1914, No. 226, on verdict for defendant in case of Benjamin Amsterdam v. E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s house caused by an explosion of dynamite. Before Broomall, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. At the trial Charles A. Patterson was called by the plaintiff as for cross-examination.
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Appeal, No. 292, Oct. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1914, No. 226, on verdict for defendant in case of Benjamin Amsterdam v. E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s house caused by an explosion of dynamite. Before Broomall, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. At the trial Charles A. Patterson was called by the plaintiff as for cross-examination. He stated that he was the superintendent of Gibbstown plant of the Dupont Powder Company. The court sustained an objection on…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The defendant company is engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder, dynamite and other explosives and has for more than twenty years carried on a branch of its business in the State of New Jersey on a tract of land about a mile and three-quarters square having one of its fronts on the Delaware River, at which place, it manufactures nitro-glycerin and various kinds of dynamite. The manufacturing plant covers about twenty-six acres of the tract. The plaintiff lives at Essington, Delaware County, on the opposite side of the Delaware river where he built a brick house in…
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