Canfield v. West Virginia Central Gas Co.

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The demurrer, the overruling of which is complained of, on a question of pleading certified by the trial court, challenges the sufficiency of a declaration claiming right of recovery for failure of the defendant company, on discontinuance of the use of its gas by an occupant and owner of a house, to shut off the supply of gas to the service pipe, at the street or service valve, and to inspect its gas pipes and lines to such an extent as to discover a secret pipe wrongfully attached to the service pipe, between that valve and the meter, and carried into the house by the…