Gulf Refining Co. v. Brown

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The Gulf Refining Company, defendant in the District Court, appeals from a judgment of $10,000 rendered at the suit of the administratrix of the estate of Percy Edward Brown upon the claim that he had come to his death by reason of the neglect of agents of the refining company, in that they had sold and delivered as kerosene oil a dangerous mixture of kerosene and gasoline which exploded when he made use of it for the purpose óf kindling a fire in a wood stove. The question of contributory negligence was submitted to the jury and no defense on this ground was raised in…