Womack v. Central Georgia Gas Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Special ground 1 of the amended motion for a new trial contends that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “He states that on the morning that this explosion occurred that he was about his usual and ordinary business in Bowen’s Furniture Store; that he undertook to light a heater, struck a match, that he didn’t turn on the valve to turn on the gas, and all of a sudden there was an explosion that demolished the building and destroyed that property and adjacent property; he says all of this is due to the fault of the defendant in this case,…