Haines v. City of Newburgh

It is alleged in the complaint, inter alia, that while the wife of plaintiff was on the public highway in Newburgh there occurred a series of explosions of great violence through and along the sewer and drainage system on the street and the premises adjacent thereto, whereby the wife was greatly injured. This, it is alleged, occurred through the negligence of defendant Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation (concurrently with that of the city) in allowing gas to escape from its mains through the ground into the sewer system; and that a similar series of explosions occurring at an earlier…