75 P. 1047 | Kan. | 1904
The action of plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, was brought for the purpose of recovering damages to a stock of goods owned by them, occasioned by the explosion of natural gas in the cellar of the building in which they were doing business. The court sustained a demurrer to plaintiffs’ evidence, which action they claimed to be ground for error.
The allegations of the petition were, substantially, that the defendant had constructed and was maintaining a gas-
This was substantially all of the evidence tending to show negligence on the part of the defendant or leading to the conclusion that the gas which caused the explosion came from the well maintained by it. No effort was made to show any fault in the casing of the well, or other defect, or that there were no other gas-wells in the immediate vicinity from which gas might have escaped. In short, nothing except the fact that defendant maintained this gas-well and that gas accumulated in the cellar and was found in the water-wells, as above stated, was shown.
We think that this showing does not warrant the conclusion either that the gas which caused plaintiffs’ injury came from defendant’s well, or that the well had been negligently constructed or was being negligently maintained. Therefore, the court correctly, sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the evidence.
The judgment will be affirmed.