Gray County Gas Co. v. Oldham

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages in the sum of $9070 filed by appellee, John S. Oldham, against appellant, Gray County Gas Company, a corporation, alleging the existence of a natural gas seepage in appellant’s pipe line on or about April 3, 1949, that resulted, due to appellant’s negligence, in an explosion under appellee’s building at Lefors, Gray County, Texas. The case was tried before a jury and judgment was rendered for appellee upon the jury verdict for the sum of $6435, from which appellant has perfected its appeal, complaining that the trial court erred in the…