Supreme Court of Pennsylvania November 22, 1869 (Ardesco Oil Co. v. Richardson & Tack)

The opinion of the court was delivered, November 22d 1869, by

Read, J. —

The plaintiffs were the owners of a large refining works on the Ohio river, and had erected on their premises an oil tank for storing crude petroleum in the spring of 1865. It had iron sides and a wooden bottom, and held about 13,000 barrels of oil.