Miller v. United Fuel Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Roane County. Proceedings by Otha A. Miller against tbe United Fuel Gas Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
The purpose of this writ is to review a judgment for plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from the bursting of defendant’s gas pipe line on July 29, 1916. At the time of the accident plaintiff and a fellow employee were engaged in search*85ing for a leak which had developed in the line, to which duty they had been assigned by defendant’s superintendent.
The line in question was a gathering or feed line, four inches in diameter, designed to collect and confine gas from numerous wells in the vicinity and transport it in…
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