McDonald v. Wheeling Pipeline, Inc.

AYRES, Judge.

This is an action in tort wherein plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries, as well as damage to property, arising out of a fire and explosions at his wholesale gasoline and oil station in Bastrop, Louisiana, July 3, 1962. Made defendant in addition to Wheeling Pipeline, Inc., is its public liability insurer.

Negligence charged to the named defendant and its employee consists in delivering gasoline from its truck into plaintiff’s storage tanks with defective equipment and in permitting gasoline to escape without the exercise of reasonable precautions. The…