Baker v. Kansas Power & Light Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This was an action in tort against the Kansas Power and Light Company, a corporation supplying the citizens and the public in Manhattan with natural gas. It was brought by one who was injured in an explosion of natural gas in his garage on, August 20, 1935, as he attempted to drive his automobile out of the garage as usual at eight o’clock in the morning. The explosion came from gas from a pipe running under the garage which had been placed there in 1920.

There were three lots facing the south on Vattier street. The plaintiff occupied the…