Plaintiff-respondent's decedent, an apprentice electrician, met his death as the result of an explosion in the electrical switchboard room of defendants-appellants' premises, which room he had entered on orders of his superior to secure an electrical snake, stored there with other tools belonging to his employer. In some manner, reconstructed by circumstantial evidence, a short circuit and fire ensued. Three theories were submitted by the trial court to the jury as possibly...
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