Gosser v. Ohio Valley Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 267, Oct. T.,. 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny. Co., Fourth T., 1909, No. 183, for defendant, in case of Mary A. Gosser v. Ohio Valley Water Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Carnahan, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court directed a verdict for defendant upon which judgment was entered. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 267, Oct. T.,. 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny. Co., Fourth T., 1909, No. 183, for defendant, in case of Mary A. Gosser v. Ohio Valley Water Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Carnahan, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court directed a verdict for defendant upon which judgment was entered. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were in giving binding instructions for defendant and in excluding evidence referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court. W. H. S. Thomson, with him Frank Thomson…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Fell,
It is alleged in the declaration filed that the plaintiff’s husband died of typhoid fever, contracted by drinking impure water negligently pumped by the defendant, the Ohio Valley Water Company into its distributing mains and storage reservoirs. The defendant supplied water to a number of municipalities near the Ohio river below the City of Pittsburgh. It got its supply of water from an island in the river on which were wells into' which the water from the river filtered through several feet of sand and rock. The water was pumped from the wells into a…
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