Blassotti v. Greensboro Gas Co.

Opinion by

Kelleb, J.,

The plaintiff, Blass otti, brought this action in trespass against the defendant for the damages he had sustained in the destruction of his automobile, through the negligent location and maintenance in a public road of an appliance in connection with defendant’s natural gas line.

About ten o’clock on a dark night, (April 13, 1926), the plaintiff started to drive his Dodge coupe from the improved Masontown-Uniontown road to Footedale. The Footedale road was an unimproved dirt road, thirty-three feet wide between fences. Between twenty-one and twenty-five feet of this width…