Chartiers V. Gas Co. v. Lynch

Citations

• 118 Pa. 362
• 21 W.N.C. 444
• 12 A. 435
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 399

Syllabus

<p>1. A natural gas company is not liable for injuries resulting from the negligenee of an independent contractor in the laying of its lines, unless it accepted work which it knew or ought to have known was so negligently done as to be unsafe and dangerous.</p> <p>2. But in the absence of evidence sufficient to warrant the finding of an acceptance, formal or informal, it is error to submit the question of an acceptance with such knowledge to the determination of the jury.</p>