Manufacturers' Light & Heat Co. v. American Telephone & Telgraph Co.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In the court below, the telephone company brought suit and recovered a verdict against the gas company for damages for the loss of its auto truck, burned by natural gas escaping from the gas company’s pipe while the truck was passing over it. On entry of judgment thereon, the gas company sued out this writ of error.

Legal liability of the gas company depends on whether the pipe in question was laid under a public highway, and, if so, whether the gas company was negligent in not burying it 24 'inches under such roadway. The accident is described in the gas company’s…