Wilson, Jr. v. East Ohio Gas Co.

This is an appeal on questions of law. The appellee, a minor who brought this suit by next friend, will be referred to as the plaintiff, and the appellant, The East Ohio Gas Co., will be referred to as the gas company.

Plaintiff alleged that he was a pupil attending a public school in Barberton, held in a dwelling house upon the premises of the board of education, which was being used temporarily as a school house, and that the gas company supplied the building with “natural gas from its main situated in” a nearby street “by means of a 1%-inch service pipe which ran from the curb in said…