Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Jennings

Andrew Jennings sued the Atlanta Gas Light Company in the Superior Court of Richmond County alleging: that at approximately 9 o’clock on a certain night the defendant’s negligence caused an explosion in its plant disabling its entire plant so that there was no service of gas in the house where the plaintiff boarded, that the flames in the gas floor-furnace near the head of the bed in which the plaintiff had already retired were extinguished, that as a result thereof the plaintiff’s feet became frozen during the night, and that the plaintiff is now in the hospital where it is expected that one…