Texas Cities Gas Co. v. Dickens

SCHARFF, Special Justice.

N. P. Dickens, a city fireman, sued the Texas Cities Gas Company, Lone Star Gas Company, the First National Bank of Waco, and W. B. Dossett, T. B. Brazelton and E. A. Flowers, composing the Waco Land Trust, for injuries sustained by him as the result of an explosion caused by natural gas escaping into a burning building, while acting in his line of duty as a fireman. The case was submitted to a jury on special issues and the jury acquitted all of the defendants of negligence except the Texas Cities Gas Company and found that its negligence and failure to cut off the…