Hammond v. Wells

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming a jury verdict against a gas company for a wrongful death caused by a leak in a pipeline buried 27 inches below the surface
• affirming a jury verdict against a gas company for a wrongful death caused by a leak in a pipeline buried 27 inches below the surface
• stating that Gould “goes to the proposition that the manufacturer and distributor of illuminating gas is held in damages for the escape of gas on the principle of negligence ... and that the escape of this agency in highly destructive quantities is prima facie evidence of negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).