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HERCULES POWDER CO. v. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER CORP.

Docket No. 17133.

151 Cal.App.2d 387 (1957)

311 P.2d 907

HERCULES POWDER COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Appellants, v. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER CORPORATION OF AMERICA (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

May 29, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Eugene M. Prince, Francis N. Marshall, Noel Dyer, and Appel, Liebermann & Leonard for Appellants.

Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon for Respondents.

Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Johnson & Phelps, Joseph W. Rogers, Jr., and Wilbur J. Russ as amici curiae on behalf of respondent Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America.

KAUFMAN, P.J.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of all defendants and against all plaintiffs, in an action for damages due to an explosion which occurred on February 12, 1953, at the Hercules Powder Company's explosive manufacturing plant near Pinole, California. The appellants are Hercules Powder Company, joined pursuant to Labor Code, section 3853, by 34 individual appellants who are 22 injured Hercules employees and the heirs of 12 deceased Hercules...

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