New York Court of Appeals April 25, 1905 (Donahue v. . Keystone Gas Co.)

Vann, J.

The plaintiff has the rights of an abutting owner upon the west side of a public highway known as Union street, in the city of Olean, but he owns no part of the bed' of the street. The defendant is a foreign corporation which supplies natural gas to the inhabitants of the city for light and fuel by means of pipes laid beneath the surface of the streets in the usual way.