Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Bellar

McMEANS, Associate Justice.

This was a suit brought by the *155appellees, L. A. Bellar and wife, against the appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, for damages resulting to them from the loss by fire of two houses in Beaumont.

Appellees alleged that appellant negligently permitted oil to escape from an oil tank on its premises and from tank cars on its switches, and that the oil so escaping saturated the ground upon which their houses were situated, as well as all that intervening between the tank, switches and plaintiffs’ premises, rendering the same highly inflammable, extra hazardous…