Legal Opinion
Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Mitchell
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided October 21, 1948No. 12012PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Justice.
A truck-driver by the name of John A. Sitton, employed by the Magnolia Petroleum Company’s wholesale distributor at its bulk-station in the City of Galveston, named Earl Logan, delivered from a truck owned by Logan, about 169 gallons of an inflammable cleaning-fluid, known as “Sov-asol”, to the Neat Dressers’ Club, also located in Galveston.
In making such delivery, Sitton parked the tank-truck of the distributor 'behind the pressing-club, and' dragged a rubber hose into the cleaning establishment.
During such delivery a large amount of the fluid accumulated on the floor of the…
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