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Moses Beal, Respondent, v. Standard Oil Company of New York et al., Appellants.
    (Argued May 11, 1925;
    decided June 2, 1925.)
    
      Negligence — proximate cause — injury from explosion of gasoline in well — liability of owner and installer of adjacent gasoline pump.
    
    
      Beal v. Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., 212 App. Div. 822, affirmed.
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 16, 1925, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been- sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of- defendants. Plaintiff was injured by an explosion which occurred when he lowered a, lighted lantern into a well, and sought to recover damages from defendants on the ground that the explosion was caused by gasoline which had percolated through the ground from a leaky gasoline pump owned by defendant Standard Oil Company of New York and installed by defendant Oram.
    
      John C. R. Taylor for Standard Oil Company of New York, appellant.
    
      Percy V. D. Gott for Charles R. Oram, appellant.
    
      Elbert N. Oakes for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Pound, J.