MILLIKEN, Justice.
We are asked to impose strict or absolute liability upon a shipper of large quantities of gasoline by tank truck upon the public highways. The appellants sued Liquid Transporters, Inc., a licensed carrier, for damages from fire allegedly caused by the negligent operation of a tank truck containing over 4,000 gallons of gasoline which was being transported for the shipper, Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, to one of its distributing centers. The...
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