Gross

Plaintiff was the owner and operator of a clothes cleaning and pressing business which he conducted in a storeroom which was a part of a certain building to and for the use of which the defendant furnished steam for heating and other purposes. By means of a tunnel the steam was conveyed in an eight-inch pipe to a point beneath a basement of the building of which plaintiff’s storeroom was a part and which basement was directly underneath the storeroom occupied by plaintiff. Prom the eight-inch pipe in the tunnel the steam was carried by a two-inch pipe to a boiler in the basement and from which boiler the steam was distributed by the owner of the building, not only to plaintiff for his use in the clothes cleaning and pressing business, but as well to other tenants on the premises. A return pipe about one and one-half • inches in diameter from the boiler conducted the “dead steám” back through the tunnel to the premises of the defendant. •

It appears that a break occurred in a part of the return pipe which was located in the basement, which had' the effect of allowing large quantities of steam to escape into the basement, and which break, after notice thereof to the defendant, not…