Lamb v. Pike Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1905, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Potter Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 177, on verdict for plaintiff in case of D. H. Lamb v. Pike Township. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to ' have been sustained by permitting a natural gas pipe to remain as an obstruction in a highway.
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Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1905, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Potter Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 177, on verdict for plaintiff in case of D. H. Lamb v. Pike Township. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to ' have been sustained by permitting a natural gas pipe to remain as an obstruction in a highway. Before Obmebod, P. J. The plaintiff’s statement averred, inter alia, as follows : At a point upon the said highway leading from West Pike in the said township to the borough of Galeton, about one and one-third miles west of the boundary line of said Galeton borough in…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Cueiam,
Though the Act of May 29,1885, P. L. 29, permits a natural gas company to lay its pipes “ upon and over, under and across ” public roads, permission is not given to such company to so lay its pipes as to make travel over public highways unsafe ; nor does the act relieve township authorities from seeing that the roads under their supervision continue to be safe for public travel, notwithstanding the location of gas pipes upon them. On this manifestly correct theory the claim of the appellee for compensation for the injuries sustained was submitted to the jury. If a pipe as laid on a…
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