Soulier v. Fall River Gas Works Co.

On moving into a house which had been unoccupied for six months, the plaintiff sent to the defendant gas company “to put in a gas meter.” This was in the week before the seventeenth of June, which in the year in question fell on a Tuesday. On some day in the middle of that week, two employees of the gas company came to the house to put up the meter. After putting up the meter, which was in the cellar, they came into the plaintiff’s kitchen and tried unsuccessfully to light the gas there. They found that no gas was coming through the pipe and, without returning to the cellar, they left, saying…