H. B. Agsten & Sons, Inc. v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Kenna, Judge:

This action of trespass on the case was brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County by H. B. Agsten & Sons, Inc., against United Fuel Gas Company for the purpose of recovering damages resulting from an explosion that wrecked an office building occupied by the plaintiff and situated upon the south side of Washington Street between Court Street and Truslow Street in Charleston. To a verdict and judgment of $2,000.00 for the plaintiff, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

The building was a small one-story office building standing upon a triangular shaped lot at the…