Baldridge v. Wright Gas Co.

In seeking a reversal of the judgments below the defendant company insists that the evidence introduced was insufficient to establish its liability to plaintiff for his injuries and further insists that such evidence demonstrated that plaintiff assumed the risk of a condition which was obvious and known to him.

Upon the trial of the action all the evidence was introduced by plaintiff and by witnesses he called; the defendant produced no witnesses.

A perusal of the bill of exceptions discloses the following:

Plaintiff purchased a gas water heater from a mercantile establishment at Hillsboro,…