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PAUL HARRIS FURNITURE CO. v. MORSE

Gen. No. 9,986.

7 Ill. App.2d 452 (1955)

130 N.E.2d 16

Paul Harris Furniture Company; Helen B. Wyatt and William Wyatt, Doing Business Under Name and Style of Hotel Byers; Singer Sewing Machine Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. William Morse, and L.M. Neff, Doing Business Under Name and Style of Automatic Heat Company et al., Defendants; A.J. Walker, Doing Business Under Name and Style of The Walker Construction Company, Defendant-Cross-Appellee; The McNamar Boiler & Tank Company, and General Tank Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied November 28, 1955.

Released for publication November 28, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeForgee, Samuels & Miller, of Decatur, for defendants-appellants McNamar Boiler & Tank Company and General Tank Company, Inc.; Carl R. Miller, and Jerald E. Jackson, both of Decatur, of counsel.

Harry I. Hannah, and John J. Yelvington, both of Mattoon, for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants; Jos. P. Smith, Jr., of Mattoon, of counsel.

Earl S. Hodges, of Springfield, for defendant-cross-appellee A.J. Walker; Samuel C. Patton, of Springfield, of counsel.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE HIBBS delivered the opinion of the court.

The parties bring to this court appeals and cross-appeals from judgments entered in three suits consolidated for trial involving extensive damages to the properties of the plaintiffs resulting from an explosion and fire due to escaping propane gas from an underground propane gas tank located on the rear portion of property owned by the City Drug Store in the city of Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois.

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