McCoy v. Ohio Valley Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 97, Oct. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., May T., 1904, No. 35, on verdict for plaintiff in case of George McCoy v. The Ohio Valley Gas Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before McIlvaine, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 97, Oct. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., May T., 1904, No. 35, on verdict for plaintiff in case of George McCoy v. The Ohio Valley Gas Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before McIlvaine, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Defendant presented the following points : 5. The uncontradicted evidence in this case being that the defendant followed the usual method and the one invariably adopted by pipe line companies in temporarily repairing lines such as this, and there being no evidence that any…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The plaintiff was injured by an explosion that occurred in the pipe line of the defendant company, at a point where he and others of the company’s workmen were engaged in the work of repairing, under these circumstances;
*370The pipe line was some three feet underground, and’ at this particular place it followed the side of a hill. A landslide had here pushed some’ of the sections of pipe from their original location, to what extent does not appear, but sufficient to cause a leak where two of the pipes joined. To relieve the line of the pressure and restore it to its…
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