Bennett v. Texas-Illinois Gas Pipeline Co.

TRTMBLE, Chief Judge.

The defendants are respectively a pipe line company and a construction company who constructed the pipe line under contract with the pipe line company.

The allegations of the complaint are that in digging the trench in which the pipe line was laid the defendants used dynamite to break up the rock, and that while in the construction of the pipe line they negligently, carelessly and willfully used excessive charges of explosives in loosening and removing the rock, and thereby the damages complained of were caused. However, at the pretrial plaintiffs asked the court to follow…