Mason v. United Gas Corp.

The appellant, Mrs. Minnie W. Mason, sued the appellee, the United Gas Corporation, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as the result of stepping in a hole or depression in an alleged public walkway in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in which walkway, the appellee had theretofore laid its gas main.

*316It was charged generally in the declaration that on April 1, 1947, the appellee procured from the City of Ocean Springs a franchise authorizing it to construct, lay, maintain, replace, and repair its pipes and lines in, under, and along…