Lone Star Gas Company v. Thomas

BOYD, Justice.

W. A. Thomas sued Lone Star Gas Company for damages to his dairy cattle alleged to have been caused by their consumption of water containing sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, which water had drained from Lone Star’s premises and cracking plant onto plaintiff’s premises, it being alleged that such chemicals poisoned and ■ otherwise injured the cattle by interfering with their digestion of food and especially with digestion in the rumen, and causing the cattle to fail to reproduce, causing them to become unhealthy and indolent, to lose weight, and to decrease their milk…