Fogel v. United Gas Improvement Co.

GRIM, District Judge.

Plaintiff’s decedent was killed at Allentown, Pennsylvania, in December, 1958, by an explosion involving leaking gas. Plaintiff sued United Gas Improvement Company (U.G.I.) and D. & C. Spinosa Co. (Spinosa), averring negligence on the part of both of them. U.G.I. was the owner of the gas main involved. Spinosa was the contractor who was laying it. Spinosa brought in United Engineers and Constructors, Inc. (U.E. & C.), which was doing engineering work on the job, as a third-party defendant, averring that if Spinosa were liable, U.E. & C. was liable to it for all or part of…