Court Opinion

ID: 6890033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 21:38:58.802576+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:05:48.931784
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
Upon consideration of the petition for rehearing filed by the appellant in the above-entitled cause, and upon further review of the record, the court concludes that its observations in the opinion that there was a general practice among lacquer manufacturers in the Louisville district, to skid drums of nitro-cellulose over rough concrete, is not sufficiently supported by the evidence, and such observations are withdrawn. It is further the view of the court that any implication in the opinion that there was a general practice to skid such drums down a concrete ramp, is not to be derived from the language of the opinion, and if so, any intention to raise such implication is denied. The court also is of the view that the statement in the opinion that the lighter form of container was limited to use by manufacturers of nitro-cellulose for shipment to Europe under the lend-lease agreement, and approved but for that purpose by the Bureau of Explosives of the Interstate Commerce Commission, implies a limitation on their use not warranted by the evidence, and that the reference to the use of such containers should have been broad enough to validate their use for transportation in domestic commerce.
Notwithstanding these amendments to the opinion we adhere to the view that when the appellant for the first time shipped nitrocellulose to the Jones Dabney Company in the lighter form of container, its failure to notify its consignee that such containers could not be safely handled in the manner in which it was accustomed to handle the earlier galvanized drums, raised issues properly submitted to the jury as to whether such failure of notice constituted negligence, and whether, if so, such negligence was the proximate caus.e of the injury; wherefore, it is hereby ordered that the petition for rehearing is in all other respects denied.