Jaeger v. Elizabethtown Consolidated Gas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The gravamen of these actions is negligence; and the specifications are that, on August 26th, 1936, the defendant corporation, a dealer in gas ranges for domestic use, (a) sold to plaintiff Theodore Jaeger and shortly thereafter installed in his dwelling house, a combination coal and gas range, consisting of an oven and four burners, that, for lack of “proper circulation” and deficiencies of construction, adjustment and function, was unsafe for use, and (b) “did not use reasonable care to investigate and find out dangerous character of said…