Mudrich v. Standard Oil Co.

Defendant insists that it is entitled to a judgment in its favor for several reasons which can be encompassed by three propositions:

1. That it owed no duty to plaintiff.

2. That plaintiff assumed the risk of the injury he received when he jumped into the gasoline fire for the purpose of putting it out.

3. That any negligence on the part of defendant was not the proximate cause of the injuries to plaintiff but that an intervening cause broke the chain of causation between the spilling of the gasoline and the burns which plaintiff received.

We shall discuss the propositions in the order in which…