Brooks v. Hill-Shaw Co.

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in a personal injury suit, notwithstanding a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, finding her entitled to $19,566.66 damages.

The action was brought to recover for injuries sustained when a glass coffee maker filled with boiling water and coffee broke, badly burning appellant. The complaint charged negligence in the construction and manufacture of the coffee maker,1 and appellant relied upon the doc*683trine of res ipsa loquitur to sustain its charge of negligence.

At the time the accident occurred, March 18, 1937,…