Pulaski Housing Authority v. Smith

These actions were brought by tenants in an apartment against their landlord, Pulaski Housing Authority, to recover for personal injuries received by them in an explosion of butane gas which occurred the afternoon they moved into the apartment and while its gas appliances were being lighted and demonstrated to them by an alleged servant of defendant.

They averred that defendant leased them the apartment as ready and fit for occupancy when in fact it was unsafe and dangerous because of a defect in its gas line which would let gas escape and accumulate in the pantry and kitchen; and that when…