Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Snell

FLY, Associate Justice.

—Appellee, a minor, through his father as next friend, sued appellant, Louis S. Fries and Robert E. Armstrong for damages alleged to have ■ accrued by reason of injuries inflicted on his person through an explosion of gas caused by the negligence of appellant. It was alleged that appellant owned and operated an extensive warehouse in the city of Houston, Texas, where it sold and distributed oil, gasoline and. other substances of like character, all being highly inflammable, and that in said warehouse was located a cooperage shop in which appellant operated a furnace,…