O'Geen v. Pavilion Natural Gas Co.

About December 1, 1927, plaintiff’s house and premises were invaded by a poisonous, gaseous odor by which plaintiff and members of his household were made sick and his property rendered unfit for occupancy. The same day plaintiff notified defendant gas company, whose customer he was, that there was some kind of gas there; that he could not stay in the house and to come over and shut the gas off. Defendant’s superintendent immediately, and on the same day, went to plaintiff’s premises, dug around the shut-off valve alongside of the sidewalk and said the odor was not its gas. The odor persisted…