Larsen v. Minneapolis Gas Company

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

In this action for damages caused by an explosion resulting from the rupture of a gas main, defendant and third-party plaintiff, Minneapolis Gas Company, appeals from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County denying its motion for a new trial on all the issues or, in the alternative, for a new trial on the issue of damages alone, and from the judgment entered.

In 1952, appellant (hereafter Gas Company) installed a gas main on Third Avenue South in Bloomington, approximately 4 feet below the surface, using new 4-inch cast iron pipe. In 1960 the city of…