Nelson v. Sibley Contracting Co.

Citations

• 66 Wash. 471
• 119 P. 829
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 790

Syllabus

<p>Explosives — Negligent Sale — Evidence—Admissibility—Sufficiency. In an action for injuries sustained by one purchasing “Jexite,” a white powder containing no picric acid, alleged to be highly explosive and dangerous, a recovery cannot be sustained on the testimony of a chemist as to experiments made by him with a powder called “Jexite,” which it appears was a yellow powder containing picric acid and entirely different ingredients from the powder sold, and which had been used only in the experimental stage and was not on the market commercially.</p>