Standard Oil Company v. Harris

Eberhardt, Judge.

The holding in Bolden v. Barnes, 117 Ga. App. 862 (162 SE2d 307) is controlling. There it was settled that “the cause of decedent’s death was his removal of the gas cap simultaneously with the application of compressed air to the fuel line by the defendant’s [Bolden’s] employee which caused gasoline to spew out at the cap onto the decedent and into his eyes, causing him to retreat backwards into the kerosene heater and ignite.”

This ruling, as a precedent which we must follow until and unless it is overruled (see Code § 6-1611; Joseph v. State, 148 Ga. 166 (96 SE 229)),…