Middleton v. De Kalb County Gas Co.

August 1, 1904, David A. Middleton, a merchant tailor occupying rooms in a building in Sycamore, applied to the De'Kalb County Gas Company to have gas piped to his rooms and attached to a tailor’s stove. The company piped one of the rooms, set a meter, and connected the stove with the pipe by slipping* a piece of rubber tubing about two /eet long over a rubber nipple at the end of the pipe and over a like end on the stove. The work was done under a written contract. Middleton paid for the connection. He used the stove eight or ten hours a day until January 28, 1908. On that day a fire…