Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-18

the meter and not disturb the supply of
gas, which he did. A day or two after
this, learning that plaintiff was in the
city, mailed him notice that unless
these gas bills were paid by the 10Th OF
the month the supply OF gas would be
shut off from his residence; and on the
10Th man was sent to the plaintiffs
residence to shut off the supply, who re-
ported that he could not shut it off be-
cause the cutoff box was filed with
sand.
On the Goth man was sent with in
structions to clean the cut off box out
and to cut off the supply Of gas, which
he did. Three or four days after this,
not having heard anything from the
plaintiff, sent man to his premises
to examine the cut off box and he
found that the box had been taken up
and reported that he could not find it.
On the Oath of June / sent two men to
plaintiffs residence to cut off the SER
vice pipe and they began digging for
that purpose on a line where the cut off
box appeared to have been located, but
where it had not been located, as the
plank in the sidewalk through which
the cut off box ran had been taken up
and exchanged for another plank in the
sidewalk some five or SIX feet away,
thus misleading the men, but they sub
sequently found the line where the SER
vice pipe ran and began dig
ging for the purpose OF discon-
Meeting it when the plaintiff
came from his house and drove them
away before they had time to accom-
plish the work, threatening them with
arrest, etc. On the morning OF June
25 / sent the same two men to plaintiffs
residence, and went there myself, for
the purpose of disconnecting the SER
vice pipe, which was done on the morn
ing OF June %. As soon as the work
was done | returned to the Office of the
company and found that the plaintiffs
gas bills had been paid s4nce / left that
morning. l desired them to renew the
supply Of gas to the plaintiff y and tele
phoned him to know where the stop box
was which had been taken out from the
service pipe, and upon his promising
to return 1T to me or to pay for 1t, |
agreed to renew the supply of gas,
which was done as soon as could be.
On the afternoon of June 25 the plaint-
itf came to the company's Office
and asked if the supply
had been turned on and
| told him no, but that it would be as
soon as possible, and required him to
sign an application for gas, agreeing to
the rules OF the company, which he did,
copy of which is hereto annexed and
marked exhibit A." As have said,
the supply OF gas was renewed, a new
stop-box put in, and the service pipe re-
paired at once, and plaintiff paid his
gas bill for the month Of June on the
llth day OF July. At this interview, on
the afternoon of June 25th, plaintiff
was very abusive, and / told him that
the gas bills were payable on or before
the 10th of each month, and that /
should insist upon compliance with the
rules, because we had had this trouble
and / wanted no more of it; that unless
he paid his gas bills on or before the
10th of each month L should turn the
gas of on the llth, he replied, well,
that is fair warming" On the morning
of July llth received check for his
gas bill for June which had been mailed
on the 10th OF July.
On the 18th day OF August at / O'Clock
in the afternoon. the plaintiff not hav-
ing paid his gas bill for July, the sup
ply Of gas was turned off. On the af-
ternoon OF August 18th the plaintiff
came to the compauy's office and asked
for the names OF different agents of the
company which gave him; he abused
me goo ddeal and demanded that his
gas be turned on. l told HIM Ii would
be as soon as he had paid his bill and
told him that he had been turned off be-
cause his bill for July had not been