Fullerton v. Glens Falls Gas & Electric Light Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Company, from' a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the 25th day of May, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $200, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9-th day of June, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
This action is brought for damages for the destruction of three shade trees by the negligence of the defendant in allowing its gas to escape. In 1907 a six-inch gas main of cast iron *482pipe was laid through First street in front of plaintiff’s property. Thereafter a leakage of gas was discovered in the plaintiff’s property and upon the street. The gas leak was repaired in the spring of 1908. The plaintiff’s contention is, that before the repair of the gas leak three of her shade trees had been destroyed by the gas, which was thus negligently allowed to escape. The first witness for…
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