Hunt v. Laclede Gas Company
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
HOUSER, Commissioner.
A trial jury awarded James Hunt $60,-000 in his action against Laclede Gas Company for damages for personal injuries sustained when an explosion of gas enveloped him in fire while sealing a joint inside a newly installed S-foot sewer pipe. Laclede’s post-trial motion for judgment in accordance with its motions for a directed verdict was sustained. Plaintiff has appealed, claiming that he made a case for the jury on both theories submitted —Laclede’s failure to control its gas mains and pipes and its failure to warn plaintiff of the accumulation of gas.
Plaintiff was an…
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