Koelsch v. Philadelphia Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 209, 210 and 211, Oct. T., 1891, by defendant, from judgments of O. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1890, Nos. 9, 10, 11, on verdicts for plaintiffs, John N. Koelsch, Mary Koelsch, his wife, and John Koelsch. Re-argued before Paxson, C. J., Sterbeii, Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell and Hevdrick, JJ. Sterrett, J., absent from first argument.
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Appeals, Nos. 209, 210 and 211, Oct. T., 1891, by defendant, from judgments of O. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1890, Nos. 9, 10, 11, on verdicts for plaintiffs, John N. Koelsch, Mary Koelsch, his wife, and John Koelsch. Re-argued before Paxson, C. J., Sterbeii, Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell and Hevdrick, JJ. Sterrett, J., absent from first argument. Trespass to recover damages for injury to plaintiff and his wife and minor child, and for the destruction of a house caused by an explosion of natural gas. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Heydeiok,
That the plaintiff’s house was supplied by the defendant with natural gas for fuel through a service pipe connected with a main pipe in the adjacent street, and that it was wrecked, and the plaintiff and several members of his family seriously injured — one of them fatally — by an explosion of such gas which had accumulated in the cellar of the house, are undisputed facts. It is alleged by the plaintiff that the gas which had so accumulated in his cellar, and there exploded, was negligently permitted by the defendant to escape through a leak in its main pipe…
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