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SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO. v. THOMAS

No. 3839.

78 F.2d 107 (1935)

SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO. v. THOMAS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

June 3, 1935.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. B. McGuire, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C. (W. S. O'B. Robinson, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., on the brief), for appellant.

E. C. Bivens, of Mt. Airy, N. C. (A. E. Tilley, of Mt. Airy, N. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Melvin Thomas, a child not quite five years of age, was seriously burned in May, 1933, when he poured into the fire in his mother's kitchen stove some gasoline which workmen in the employ of the Southern Public Utilities Company, defendant in the court below, had unintentionally left on the porch of the Thomas home, after they had repaired a washing machine sold by the Utilities Company to the father of the child. The question in the case is...

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