Eason v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

Appellants instituted this action for damage to their house as a result of fire which they allege was negligently caused by appellee company in the control and maintenance of certain defective electrical equipment in and near their home.

Appellants had purchased the house in question from the original owner when it was four years old and had moved in the house seven weeks prior to the fire. Ap*56pellants' applied to the appellee company for electrical service, who, accordingly, turned on the current. The transformer owned by appellee was on a pole to the rear of the house and appellee likewise…