Indiana Natural & Illuminating Gas Co. v. McMath

The complaint of the appellee against the appellant showed that the latter, on the 16th of October, 1896, and for a long time prior thereto, unlawfully and negligently maintained one of its lines about one-half inch in diameter, through which gas was being transmitted to its customers in Tipton county, on top of the ground in and upon a public highway running east and west, at a point about three-fourths of a mile north and one-half a mile east of the town or village of Ekin in said county, in such a manner as to obstruct the highway, and negligently permitted the weeds and grass to grow over…