Citizens Gas & Coke Utility v. Wells

According to the complaint of the appellees-plaintiffs, Seth and Sarah Wells, the appellant-defendant, Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, negligently shut off gas service to their vacant Indianapolis rental building during September of 1968, causing extensive damage during the winter due to frozen and bursting pipes. The damage was first discovered in January of 1969 by Mr. Wells. The trial court, in awarding $8,000 damages to the appellees-plaintiffs (hereinafter called the Wells’), found that the utility had not given adequate notice to the Wells’ of the necessity for entrance to the premises in…