King v. Equitable Gas Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

On December 5, 1929, while plaintiff was in a trolley car on Eighth Avenue in the Borough of Munhall, he was badly injured by an explosion of natural gas, resulting in the total destruction of the borough post office building, which fronted on the avenue immediately op posite the point where the car was at that time. The natural gas was a part of that which had been passing through defendant’s sixteen-inch main, carrying from twelve to seventeen pounds pressure and running longitudinally under the avenue. The question at issue was whether it escaped from the main…