Fakes v. Fort Worth Gas Co.

Fakes & Co. instituted this suit against the Fort Worth Gas Company in a justice court to recover damages in the sum of $159.27, the alleged value of three plate glass windows destroyed by an explosion in the basement of an adjoining business concern. A trial was had in the justice court and judgment rendered, from which judgment an appeal was prosecuted to the county court of Tarrant coupty for civil cases, where there was a trial de novo. After the introduction of the evidence in the county court, the trial judge gave a peremptory instruction to the jury to find for the defendant, and the…