Beatty v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Co.

Citations

• 236 Pa. 585
• 84 A. 1098
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 804

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Oil well — Torpedoing oil well — Nonsuit.</p> <p>In an action by a boy twelve years old to recover damages for personal injuries against a corporation employed to torpedo an oil well, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that defendant was employed merely to torpedo the well without having charge of it; that its duty was to lower the torpedo in the well and explode it; that after the well was torpedoed the gas therefrom became ignited from some cause not shown; that all the fires in and about the boiler had been carefully extinguished; and that the boy instead of staying upon a public road forty to sixty feet away from the well, where he would have been safe, had gone close to the well merely out of curiosity and was injured when the gas ignited.</p>