Beal v. Standard Oil Co.

Headnote

Negligence — proximate cause — injury from explosion of gasoline in well — liability of owner and installer of adjacent gasoline pump.

Beal v. Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., 212 App. Div. 822 , affirmed.

Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 16, 1925, unanimously

affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been- sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of- defendants. Plaintiff was injured by an explosion which occurred when he lowered a, lighted lantern into a well, and sought to recover damages from defendants on the ground that the explosion was caused by gasoline which had percolated through the ground from a leaky gasoline pump owned by defendant Standard Oil Company of New York and installed by defendant Oram.