Bernier v. Pittsfield Coal Gas Co.

In these actions, tried together, the plaintiffs are husband and wife; each suing to recover for injuries received from escaping gas, and the husband, in addition, is suing for expenses incurred because of his wife’s injuries. The harm suffered by the plaintiffs was caused by the inhalation of gas escaping from a break in the defendant’s pipe and percolating into the plaintiffs’ home from the street. It was stipulated that the pipe was laid three and one half feet below the surface; that at the time of the injuries the weather was extremely cold and the frost had penetrated into the ground…