Geist v. Niagara Fire Insurance

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Plaintiff, while operating his automobile on a narrow street in the City of Carbondale, ran over a projecting pipe which housed a shutoff valve of a utility. On hearing a sharp knock he immediately stopped his car and made an inspection to ascertain what his car had struck. He looked under his automobile and noted a shiny ridge on the top of the pipe indicating that it had come in contact with some part of his car. He did not observe anything wrong with his automobile and, assuming that it was his exhaust pipe that had struck the projection in the road, he proceeded on his…