Thompson v. Ohio Fuel Gas Co.

The petition charges that the defendant placed and maintained the pipe beneath and adjacent to the public road; that defendant was negligent in connection therewith in several respects; and that the defendant’s negligence in one or more of these respects caused the explosion which resulted in the plaintiff’s decedent’s death. Suffice it to say that the evidence as to some of the specifications of negligence was deficient, so that the ultimate question which confronted the trial judge at the close of the evidence involved the depth of the pipe and the sufficiency of the notice of the presence…