Winnett v. Carnegie Natural Gas Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 189, April T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Aug. T., 1906, No. 148, on verdict for plaintiff in case of J. H. Winnett v. The Carnegie Natural Gas Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to land alleged to have been sustained by the construction of a pipe line.
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Appeal, No. 189, April T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Aug. T., 1906, No. 148, on verdict for plaintiff in case of J. H. Winnett v. The Carnegie Natural Gas Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to land alleged to have been sustained by the construction of a pipe line. At the trial Thomas Hetherington, a witness for plaintiff, was asked this question; “Q. Mr. Hetherington, admitting that-the defendant company had laid a twenty-four inch gas line across Mr. Winnett’s farm in the spring and summer of 1906, then from what you' saw on the ground when you…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The first assignment of error relates to the competency of the witness, Hethrington, to testify in regard to the amount of the plaintiff’s damage. The action is trespass- and the complaints were (a) that the defendant had entered without right on the plaintiff’s land and constructed a pipe line; (b) that, conceding the defendant’s right to lay the line under the grants set up by the latter, the work was not done wholly within the limits of. the grants and the plaintiff was also injured by the negligent manner in which it was done. The action was brought- August 1,…
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