Legal Opinion
Callahan v. Keystone Fireworks Manufacturing Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Decided December 21, 1967No. 39273PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J. †
The plaintiff, Andrew Callahan, a resident of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was seriously injured as a result of the premature explosion of an aerial bomb during a fireworks display which the Coeur d’Alene Junior Chamber of Commerce was firing from a barge anchored in Lake Coeur d’Alene on July 4, 1962. The plaintiff was one of a 12-man team which was putting on the fireworks display as a part of that organization’s community service activities.
The aerial bombs were fired from a battery of 11 metal mortar tubes closed at the bottom and placed in wooden boxes filled with sand. The bombs were…
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