Patrol Valve Company v. Farrell

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This case had its inception in the court below in an action for damages growing out of an explosion of a hot water heater installed in a new house then under construction in Dumas, Texas, by appellee John Farrell, d/b/a John Farrell Lumber Company. The heater was manufactured by Rheem Manufacturing Company, a defendant in the court below along with appellant, Patrol Valve Company. The case was tried to the court. After appellee had rested its case appellant and the other defendant just named moved for a judgment on the grounds that appellee had failed to prove a cause of…