Rix v. Lowell Gas Co.

In this tort action for personal injury and property damage resulting from an explosion in the plaintiffs’ home, the jury found for the plaintiffs. The defendant argues that its motion to strike the auditor’s conclusions and *855findings for the plaintiffs should have been allowed on the ground that those conclusions and findings were not supported by express subsidiary findings as required by Rule 86 of the Superior Court (as amended effective December 1, 1964). Although the auditor failed to state in so many words that the explosion was of gas, no other interpretation is possible in the light…