Citizens' N. Gas Co. v. Shenango N. Gas Co.

Citations

• 138 Pa. 22
• 20 A. 947
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1233

Syllabus

<p>(a) The plaintiff, a natural gas company, whose lines were supplied by eleven wells, purchased and turned in the gas from certain other wells owned by the defendant company. Subsequently, the defendant company stopped for a time the supply of gas from the wells sold, when plaintiff filed a bill for an injunction, damages, and general relief:</p> <p>1. No notice having been given, when the gas was purchased by the plaintiff company, that its possession and use was necessary for the plaintiff’s business, and that withholding it would leave the plaintiff without a sufficient supply for its customers, the measure of damages for the loss of the gas was its value at defendant’s wells.</p>