Lewis

Plaintiff had judgment in the sum of $1,500, damages alleged to have resulted from an explosion of gas occurring while the plaintiff was using the oven of a gas stove in an apartment occupied by her. From this judgment the defendant appeals.

The transcript shows that on or about the tenth day of September, 1924, the plaintiff called at the office of the defendant and made application for gas service in apartment number 5 at number 417 West Twenty-eighth Street, in the city of Los Angeles. In response to said request an employee of the defendant, on the afternoon of said day, went to the apartment house referred to and turned on the gas at the meter belonging to the defendant, and also went in the apartment and tested one or two of the top burners of the stove to see that the gas was coming through the pipes. Thereafter, and prior to the twenty-seventh day of October, 1924, the plaintiff twice used the oven of the stove referred to. The stove was an “Occidental” cooking range, installed in apartment number 5 by persons other than the defendant. The defendant had nothing to do with installing the service pipes leading from the meter to the gas range in apartment 5, and, as just…