Ruch v. Gas Electric Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

This was an action for damages for an injury alleged to have been caused to the plaintiff by an explosion of gas discharged from the pipes of the defendant, through the negligence and carelessness of the defendant’s agents and servants in leaving the same uncapped, after the removal of a gas meter from the Armory building in the city of Englewood, in the county 'of Bergen.

The plaintiff was the janitor of the building. It appears by the evidence that the meters were in a closet on the lower Jloor and were two in number. There were places for…