Oil City Gas Co. v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Vencmgo county : Of October and November Term 1881, No. 78. Case, by H. B. Eobinson against the Oil City Gas Co., to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company, a corporation chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania with the right to occupy the streets of Oil City with gas pipes.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Vencmgo county : Of October and November Term 1881, No. 78. Case, by H. B. Eobinson against the Oil City Gas Co., to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company, a corporation chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania with the right to occupy the streets of Oil City with gas pipes. On tiie trial, before Taylor, P. J., the following facts appeared : The plaintiff, the city engineer of Oil City, on October 2d 1878, entered a sewer just completed under his official and professional supervision,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Gordon
delivered the opinion of the court, November 7th 1881.
There is but a single one of the rulings of the court, in the ease before us, with which we are inclined to find fault; as to the rest we regard the exceptions to them as not well taken. These are mainly to the instructions of the court as to tlie responsibility of the company for the results arising from the escaping gas. It is contended that the company’s neglect in not repairing its pipe was, at most, hut the remote and not the proximate cause of the accident. But to this proposition we cannot assent.
The gas pipe and…
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