Brown v. Kansas Natural Gas Co.

SYMES, District Judge.

The Kansas Natural Gas Company, defendant here and below, conveys natural gas through, a high-pressure, main from certain wells in Oklahoma and Kansas to Kansas City, Mo. At a point on Twenty-Eifth street, just inside the city limits, it delivers it to the Kansas City Gas Company, by whom the gas is distributed throughout the city at a somewhat lower pressure. The defendant’s main runs in an east and west direction along the south side of TwentyEifth street, within a few feet of the curb, 3 feet underground, to a point where it turns southeast under the sidewalk space,…