McAllister v. Gardner

BATEMAN, Justice.

Appellant brought this tort action against appellee and appeals from a take-nothing judgment rendered upon a jury verdict. Appellant’s house was seriously damaged by fire which he claimed to have been caused by the negligence of appellee, a plumber, who had been employed by appellant to-repair a gas leak in appellant’s yard. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the-judgment.

The jury findings which are material to-the problems raised by this appeal are: (1) appellee and his employees did not make proper repairs to the gas line; (2) this-*318failure was a proximate cause of the…