Golden v. National Utilities Co.

Respondent had judgment in the Circuit Court of Linn County against National Utilities Company (hereinafter called appellant) for $8,000.00 for the death of his wife, then 26 years of age, occasioned by burns received in the basement of his home at 210 South Main Street in Brookfield, Missouri, on August 12, 1944. Appellant furnished artificial gas to the general public in that city and was charged with permitting some of such gas to leak from its conduits into respondent’s basement, accumulate therein and explode, thereby causing the death. The first count of the petition charged general…