Stallcup v. United Gas Public Service Co.

SPEER, Justice.

Appellant, J. S. Stallcup, sued appellee, United Gas Public Service Company, a private corporation, for damages, growing out of an injury sustained by him while loading pipes on his truck for transportation to ap-pellee’s warehouse.

As disclosed by appellant’s petition, insofar as is necessary to here show, appellant was injured under the following conditions: On about May 7th, 1935, appellee had finished laying its pipeline across the railway right-of-way at a point in Fort Worth, Texas, and had three joints of steel pipe about 20 feet long left on hand at that place; the pipes…