This was an action brought to recover damages for injuries received by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, as the result of an explosion of natural gas in a room in an apartment which he was then occupying.
It was asserted that, as the injured claimant "ignited a cigarette lighter in the kitchen of said apartment for the purpose of lighting a cigarette * * *, suddenly, without any warning whatsoever, and as a direct...
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