Coastal Transport Co. v. Fisher

W. O. MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Olin E. Fisher, Tom E. Fisher and Geneva Fisher, a minor, by and through her father and next friend, Olin E. Fisher, against Coastal Transport Company, a partnership, seeking to .recover damages suffered Tom E. Fisher and Olin E. Fisher and his family, as a result of an explosion which occurred at the Clymore Filling Station located in Raymondville, Willacy County, Texas.

The explosion was caused by the negligence of an employee of the Coastal Transport Company while pumping gasoline from a truck belonging to the company into a tank at…