Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Davis

There is but one question for decision by this court, and that is conceded to be whether the plaintiff’s petition sets forth a cause of action in the plaintiff’s favor to recover damages from the defendant gas company for the death of the plaintiff’s mother. The plaintiff alleged that her mother was fatally burned on June 15, 1949, when she attempted to light the pilot light of a gas hot water heater installed by the defendant and serviced by it, and for which the defendant furnished the gas burned therein, and that she, by reason of such burns, died on the following day. The court below…