Citizens Gaslight & Heating Co. v. Granger

This was assumpsit for the value of- certain machinery and apparatus and the expense of placing the same, brought by appellees against the appellant. There was a trial by jury, verdict for plaintiff for $1,215.18 and judgment accordingly, a motion for new trial having been overruled.

There is no dispute that the machinery was furnished and the work done by appellees and that the benefit thereof was received and appropriated by appellant, but the question was whether the former was entitled to compensation therefor. The appellant is a corporation manufacturing gas, and the appellees, who are…