Houston Natural Gas Corporation v. Pearce

WERLEIN, Justice.

This suit was filed March 23, 1953, by ap-pellees, W. B. Pearce et al., against appellant, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, to recover damages to their building allegedly caused by appellant’s negligent failure to properly backfill and tamp a ditch or trench it had excavated in front of ap-pellees’ building in June, 1950, for a gas pipeline. The case was tried to the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment for appellees in the sum of $10,500. Appellant has duly perfected its appeal to this Court.

Appellant has grouped its first 18 points of error, which have to do with…