Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. v. Gray

Plaintiff brought this action against defendant, a public utility, to recover damages for physical suffering, loss of income and exemplary damages allegedly sustained by reason of defendant’s wrongful, willful and negligent conduct in shutting off the gas service in plaintiff’s home for several hours during a period of extremely cold weather, although her account had been paid. It was alleged that because of such wrongful conduct plaintiff was exposed to the cold for several hours, and eventually was forced to go out into a blizzard in attempting to have gas service restored, and as a result…