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HAGEMAN v. SIGNAL L. P. GAS, INC.

No. 73-1110.

486 F.2d 479 (1973)

Sharon HAGEMAN, Admx. of the Estate of Donald Hageman, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SIGNAL L. P. GAS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Seth Hurd, Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Sullivan & Paisley, Cleveland, Ohio, on brief, for defendant-appellant.

Edward M. Swartz, Boston, Mass., James A. Hutton, Bryan, Ohio, on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WEICK, CELEBREZZE and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee was awarded damages by a jury in the amount of $532,832.02 for the death of her husband, Donald Hageman. The decedent suffered severe burns on June 20, 1967 as a result of an explosion of liquified petroleum gas which had passed unburned through a defective hot water heater. He died five and one-half hours later. At the time of his death he was 26 years old and the father of four children; he was an auto mechanic and operated...

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