MORAN UTILITIES COMPANY v. McHaney

McNEILL, Justice.

This is a gas explosion case. On or about June 17, 1955 plaintiff, appellee here, Kenneth R. McHaney, Jr., who was then the husband of Barbara Jean McHaney, entered their residence which was a first-floor apartment in the “Morris Apartments” facing north on W. Phillips Street and immediately east of an alley-way running north and south between Phillips and Davis Streets in the City of Conroe, Montgomery County, and having passed through the living room, reached the kitchen doorway intending to light a cook stove to warm his meal and struck a match which caused a strong…