Bardsley v. Gill
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 375, Jan. T., 1906, by defendants, from judgment of G. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March Term, 1902, No. 1,659, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Martha Bardsley v. Gill & Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Barratt, J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $7,500. Defendants appealed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 375, Jan. T., 1906, by defendants, from judgment of G. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March Term, 1902, No. 1,659, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Martha Bardsley v. Gill & Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Barratt, J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $7,500. Defendants appealed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The assignments of error which were twenty-two in number were various instructions and rulings on evidence sufficiently referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Justice Potter,
The plaintiff in this case seeks to recover damages for the death of her husband, who was killed in an explosion at the defendants’ factory on November 27,1901. Richard Bardsley, the husband, was employed by the defendants as a night engineer, performing, among other duties, that of caring for an oil pump which drew fuel oil from a room in which it was stored, in the cellar of the factory, to the furnace room where it was used as fuel for melting glass.
*59On the night of the explosion the flow of oil from the tank became in some way obstructed. The matter was…
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