Cohen v. Consolidated Gas Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mildred Cohen, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of November, 1909, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Plaintiff resides in apartments at Nos. 90-92 Allen street in the city of New York. On January 25, 1907, two men with badges on their hats came into her room about one o’clock in the afternoon, and after some minutes spent therein did something which she describes as locking the gas meter, and returning about three o’clock in the same afternoon unlocked it. At about three-thirty in the afternoon an explosion took place in the cellar of the house wherein plaintiff’s apartments were located, which was of great severity, and as a result of which partitions in the cellar were blown…
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