CENTRAL NAT. B. & T. CO. v. CENTRAL I.L. CO.

Gen. No. 64-82.

65 Ill. App.2d 287 (1965)

212 N.E.2d 489

Central National Bank & Trust Company of Peoria, Administrator of the Estate of John J. Heitzman, Deceased, Opal Heitzman and Margaret Einfeldt, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Central Illinois Light Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied January 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cassidy & Cassidy, of Peoria (John E. Cassidy, Sr., of counsel), for appellants.

O'Hern, O'Hern & Wombacher, of Peoria, for appellee.


HOFFMAN, J.

This is a suit brought by landowners for damages to real and personal property occasioned by an explosion caused by a leak in an underground gas main of the defendant utility company. The defendant admitted liability. The only issue before the Court, which tried the case without a jury, was the amount of plaintiffs' damages.

On January 16, 1957, in Peoria, the residence of John J. Heitzman, now deceased, his nearby combined apartment and store...

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