Snyder v. Philadelphia Co.

POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:

As the defendant in error, Robert Snyder, driving a two horse wagon loaded with baled hay, along a public road in Wetzel County, approached a point in the road from which a gas well owned by The Philadelphia Company of West Virginia stood about fifty feet distant, W. W. Little, an agent and employee of ■said company, opened the valve or gate of the pipe in which the gas was confined under great pressure, and permitted it to escape, thereby causing a hissing and roaring noise, which frightened plaintiff’s horses' and caused him to be thrown or to fall, from the top of the…