Legrow v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.

(Jones, P.J., & Sullivan, J.)—These are eight cases coming to this division in a consolidated report, each case being an action for personal injuries following the escape of gas from a cracked main of the defendant. The main was located in a public highway, and the plaintiffs were all occupants of a near-by house which the gas entered by way of the.cellar after seeping through the ground. The trial judge found- specifically that each of the plaintiffs was in the exercise of due care.

The defendant filed seven requests for rulings of which the trial judge allowed five and denied two, the first…