Apache Gas Co. v. Thompson

On the dark and misty evening of December 14,1931, Mrs. Daisy Thompson, accompanied by her husband, her small daughter and a friend, Mrs. Hazel Straughn, was walking along or very near the portion of a street in the town of Marshall, Okla.,. reserved for pedestrians, when she stepped into an open ditch about two feet wide and some 20 inches deep which had been dug that day by the Apache Gas Company, a corporation, and left unbarricaded and without warning signals. As a result the fibula bone of her right leg was fractured near the knee and she was otherwise severely injured.

There was a cement…