Ehret v. Village of Scarsdale

On the morning of December 17, 1931, the

dead body of the plaintiff’s intestate was found in a vacant house, which had been erected and was still owned by the Westchester County Small Estates Corporation. The dead body of the night watchman, employed by the owner, was found there at the same time. Both had been asphyxiated by illuminating gas. The gas did not escape from pipes on the premises. It must have come there from a leak outside. The evidence permits, if, indeed, it does not dictate, the inference that the gas escaped from a leak in a gas main at a point under a village street more…