UNITED ZINC & CHEMICAL CO. v. BRITT

No. 164.

258 U.S. 268 (1922)

UNITED ZINC & CHEMICAL COMPANY v. BRITT ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry D. Ashley and Mr. William S. Gilbert for petitioner.

Mr. F.J. Oyler and Mr. Fred Robertson for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit brought by the respondents against the petitioner to recover for the death of two children, sons of the respondents. The facts that for the purposes of decision we shall assume to have been proved are these. The petitioner owned a tract of about twenty acres in the outskirts of the town of Iola, Kansas. Formerly it had there a plant for the making of sulphuric...

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