Fonda v. Northwestern Public Service Co.

Nellie L. Fonda during her lifetime brought this action against the defendant corporation and its superintendent in charge of installation, inspection and distribution of its natural gas service for alleged injuries, claimed to be due to carbon-monoxide asphyxiation, on December 19, 1933, from a convertible gas burner, placed in a Green Colonial furnace, ordinarily used for burning solid fuels, and owned by James H. Fonda and his wife Nellie. The case proceeded in the name of the executors of her estate. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the amount of $5,000 and dismissed the…