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STEAGALL v. DOT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION

446 S.W.2d 515 (1969)

Thomas Lee STEAGALL, Respondent and Plaintiff, v. DOT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, Petitioner and Defendant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.H. Rutherford, Jr., and James P. Guenther, Nashville, for respondent-plaintiff.

Branstetter, Moody & Kilgore, Nashville, for petitioner-defendant, W. A. Moody, Nashville, of counsel.

OPINION

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

Plaintiff, Thomas Lee Steagall, a cook employed by American Baptist Theological Seminary to prepare meals for the school cafeteria, suffered severe burns to the upper portions of his body when he accidentally turned over a bottle of drain solvent which had been left uncapped on an upper shelf. Plaintiff was reaching for a can of vegetables when he accidentally turned the bottle over, spilling a part of its contents over the upper...

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