Legal Opinion

Triplett v. Alabama Power Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 9, 1925No. 7 Div. 533PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.

Plaintiff, who appeals, claimed to have sufferéd injury, to have been ' temporarily asphyxiated with resulting injuries of a more permanent character, by the escape of carbon monoxide gas from a so-called instantaneous heater in- his bathroom. There was no evidence that the gas furnished by defendant was negligently or unscientifically constituted as to its chemical elements, no evidence of negligence or ir- . regularity in the pressure which carried it into plaintiff’s bathroom. Responsibility is sought to be fastened on defendant by reason of the fact that its employee, sent to make a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Alabama Power Co. v. JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Beasley v. MacDonald Engineering Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1971
  2. Graham v. North Carolina Butane Gas Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1950
  3. Clare v. Bond County Gas Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1934
  4. Cadogan v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
  5. Sutcliffe v. Fort Dodge Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1934

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