Portsmouth Gas Co. v. Maddox

The defendant alleges several errors occurring in the trial in the Court of Common Pleas which he claims are prejudicial and sufficient to justify a reversal. It is first claimed that the petition is defective ,and insufficient in that it does not allege that the gas company had notice of the defective pipes or the escape of gas therefrom; that these allegations are essential and necessary to state a cause of action, and that the demurrer to the petition should have been sustained. We can not agree with this contention. The petition alleges that the defendant had insufficient and defective…