Chartiers V. Gas Co. v. Waters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OP ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 12 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court- below, No. 189 January Term 1887, C. P. No. 2. To the first Monday of December, 1886, a summons in case issued in an action by W. W. Waters against the Philadelphia Go., the Chartiers Valley Gas Co., and the Pittsburgh Gas Co. The defendants pleaded, not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 2 OP ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 12 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court- below, No. 189 January Term 1887, C. P. No. 2. To the first Monday of December, 1886, a summons in case issued in an action by W. W. Waters against the Philadelphia Go., the Chartiers Valley Gas Co., and the Pittsburgh Gas Co. The defendants pleaded, not guilty. When the case was called for trial on September 27,1887, the plaintiff took a nonsuit against the Pittsburgh Gas Co., when the following facts appeared in evidence : On May 4, 1886, the Chartiers V. Gas Co., a corporation organized…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justicie Hand :
This was am action for negligence alleged against the defendants while their pipes were being laid, in not protecting the gas pipes of another company, whereby an explosion took *228placé wliicli burned and injured the plaintiff’s goods in his store.
The defence set up was, that the whole work was contracted to one Joyce, and the injury was caused by his negligence. The material facts of the case are the same as in the case of the same Company v. Lynch, 118 Pa. 362. It is not necessary to repeat them here. The contract as there stated clearly ■established the relation…
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- Chartiers V. Gas Co. v. LynchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
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