Johnson v. Atlantic City Gas & Water Co.

Reed, V. C.

This bill is filed by a landlord and by a tenant of a dwelling-house in Atlantic. City. It is filed to compel the defendant, a gas and water company, incorporated under the laws of this state, to supply this dwelling-house 'with gas. The house is connected with the gas company's reservoir by pipes. The tenant, Cridland, rented the house of Johnson, and then applied to the gas company to have the gas turned on. The company refused to do so until an unpaid bill for gas furnished to a former tenant was paid.

The ground taken by the demurrer is that, assuming that a duty rested upon the…