Ambruster v. Levitt Realty & Investment Co.

* NOTE: Opinion filed at September Term, 1936, April 21, 1937; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at May Term, 1937, June 30, 1937. Action for injuries alleged to have resulted from carbon monoxide gas escaping from a gas-operated refrigerator. Verdict for $8,000 went for plaintiff and defendant appealed from the judgment entered.

Plaintiff alleged that she and another young woman occupied furnished apartment 304 in defendant's apartment building at 3705 Washington Avenue, St. Louis; that the refrigerator furnished was an Electrolux, "operated by the ignition of a constantly flowing…