Harrison v. Lorenz

This suit was instituted by plaintiff, as special administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, to recover damages for her death, allegedly caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove purchased from defendant Montgomery Ward & Company, hereinafter referred to as the company, and repaired subsequent to purchase by defendant Lorenz, an employee of said company.

The stove was purchased some time in February, 1938, and operated satisfactorily from that time until the following September when it was noticed that the pilot light burned with a high yellow flame and the stove failed to produce the…