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Court in Night Sessionthere would certainly be a uniform nSo As to Complete Casecause for it. It tlit* gas leak ste*ul the v*ar around the result would Ik* tlie same, he said, it outside conditions were the same.(Continued from Paso I;other cause- iut illuminating gas didthe damage to the Darlington plantsand owers. The results were not suchduring the six year period in questionthat any specific diseases would havecaused the damage As to sewer gas, any odor from a manure pit or any gas from a boiW ;-house causing the damage in this instance. I would say that it would have had to tie in a quantity great enough to make it uncomfortable for people towork in the green houses.Puder cross-examination, Dr True was again asked about Dr. lt;rocker and whether lie did not g» t some ot his knowledge from that famous scientist and star witness for the defend-In answer to the last question asked i!Dr. True in cross-examination. Dr True replied: The amount of gas in g the Darlington green houses necessary • to have caused the damage complained \ of, could not have been detected, in ■» my opinion, by any human agency.ILieutenant Colonel Marshall li Pugh, of West Chester, a former resident of Doyle#town and an uncle of11 illborn Darlington, defendant, was called as an expert w tness by the plaintiff. Colonel Pugh served in t France as an engineer at the front ami . t in camp construction at Pordeaux. Hlt;-is also a mining and sanitary engimci in private practice, located in Phila j delphia He was called as a pipe ex ^ pt'it and testified that cast iron pipej is verv durable hut that it is \* ry l»ritiant company.I would say that Dr. Crocker i theoutstanding scientist today in tin* fieldof illuminating gas as it pertains toeffect on plant life. Dr. True said.Di True was then asked tha1 whet lie i the com rete walls ot * le Darlington green houses would nothave stopped the diffusion of gas.Walls and concrete partitions would slow down the diffusion of gas hut 1 do not know io what extent, Dr True answered.• Is it not true that the incomplete combustion of coal from a iurnacemay give off ethylene and cause damage to greenhouse plants and dowers? Dr. True was as1 am not a gas chemist and cannotanswer that question, was the anti*iIt had previously been testified that Ithe gas main in question in the suit »lt; 1 ..t H.a Do test* not injvt ejiwas a two-inch main of cast iron.Tnder pressure or knocks and it iur carefully laid this pipe w 11 lt;rackj(or break, Colonel Pug's 1 he ft rtner armv offit«fled that sewer air willplants and flower Tin gas maih *m Mspic avenue. In - aid wax laid in 1 SIM. I he 1 est method to protect a two inch main, under which had been laid sewer pipe later nn, a in the ease of tie* lt;';u in queswouhi la* to fill in oeiow with II(loti. nuutu ..... ... .concrete ho that the pas pipe won)*!*•Mwer.“Isn't it true that in most illumirest on the concrete for nppm;. ( ni onel Pugh test Hiett.“A khs main ot i wo-iiii ii PUP*i*forty-six years uglt; with a terracotta it In
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Bristol Courier
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 28, 1930
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