Fort Worth Gas Co. v. Cooper

(after stating the facts as above). Appellant’s first proposition is that, even if' it be conceded that its-failure to remedy and prevent the discharge of the gas from the meter or its immediate connections was negligence still such negligence was not, as a matter of law, the proximate cause of the explosion and injury resulting therefrom. It is insisted that ,the ignition of the gas was the proximate cause of the injury, and that because the ignition was not made by the appellant or its employees, but by the appellee herself, flor whose acts appellant was not responsible, it could not be…