Chilberg v. Colcock

Citations

• 80 Wash. 392
• 141 P. 888
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1318

Syllabus

<p>Explosives—Negligence—Cause of Explosion—Evidence-—Sufficiency. Recovery for negligence in installing gasoline tanks in a launch, in that a pipe leading to one of the tanks was not properly fitted, is properly denied on the ground that the cause of an explosion, when the tanks were first filled, was not proven hut left to conjecture, where it does not appear that any gasoline leaked from the pipe in question, but only that it might have done so, and that the explosion was caused by gasoline leaking on the engine and which might have come from the deck when the other two tanks were filled, or from the supply pipes from one of the other tanks.</p>