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E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. v. WRIGHT

No. 9818.

146 F.2d 765 (1944)

E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. v. WRIGHT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 22, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. McCracken, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Abel Klaw, of Wilmington, Del. (Robert T. McCracken, of Philadelphia, Pa., Abel Klaw, of Wilmington, Del., and Charles W. Milner and Bullitt & Middleton, all of Louisville, Ky., on the brief), for appellant.

J. Verser Conner, of Louisville, Ky., for appellee.

Before SIMONS, ALLEN, and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The accident which caused the death of the appellee's decedent was the result of the rupture and subsequent ignition of a drum of nitro-cellulose manufactured by the appellant and shipped by it to the Jones-Dabney Company, a lacquer manufacturer, in Louisville, Kentucky. The decedent was an employee of the consignee, and the consignor appeals from a judgment for the decedent's administratrix on ground that it was not negligent and, in the alternative...

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