Foster v. Woodward

WALKER, Chief Justice.

Driving into a filling station in the town of Nederland, Jefferson county, Texas, owned and operated by appellees, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Woodward, on the 14th day of September, 1937, Mrs. Sammie Bihn, the agent of appellant, S. W. Foster, struck one of the pumps, tearing off the pump hose, and causing the escaping gasoline to ignite and set fire to the filling station. The filling station was a two-story wooden building; appellees used the second story for the family residence. At the time of the accident, Mrs. Woodward was in the living- quarters up stairs, and was injured…