Lewis v. Boston Gas Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions OP tout, for injuries occasioned to the buildings of the plaintiffs respectively by an explosion of gas in another building on Mercantile Street in Boston. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
These are two actions of tort, to recover damages for injuries caused to the buildings of the plaintiffs by an explosion of illuminating gas in a store on the side of Mercantile Street in Boston, opposite to the buildings of the plaintiffs. The explosion took place on December 15, 1888. The gas escaped from the defendant’s main pipe, which had been laid in Mercantile Street and was found broken, and the evidence was that the break was caused by the subsidence of the soil under the pipe at the place of fracture, and that the gas had entered the store from the pipe through the fracture by…
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