Texas Cities Gas Co. v. Gomez

GRAVES, Justice.

This is a damage suit, brought by A. T. Gomez against Texas Cities Gas Company, the petition invoking the aid of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, complaining of the acts of appellant’s employees in permitting great quantities of strongly odorized gas to be loosened in and to erupt from its lines, and to permeate that entire neighborhood, with accompanying noise and eruption of sand nearby to and against appellee’s home, allegedly causing appellee’s wife fright and shock, and aggravating a serious heart ailment, from which she was at that time suffering. Appellant filed a…