Legal Opinion
Bonner v. Texas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1937No. 8251PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff-appellant sued the Texas Company and its subsidiary, Texaco Can Company, both corporations of Delaware, for the negligent homicide of her husband, an employee of the latter. The District Court rejected as evidence a statement of the husband as to how he was injured, and directed the verdict for the defendants. These rulings are for review.
The deceased, Bonner, died because of burns from an explosion while he was at work in a room where machines in his charge were making a fuel mixture of air and natural gas and of air and vapor of gasoline. Compensation was…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. HortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. ChamberlainSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. PrenticeSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Fort Worth Elevators Co. v. RussellTexas Supreme Court · 1934
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Gulf Refining Co. v. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1938
- Robertson v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1966
- Louis v. ParchmanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1973
- Alley v. Texas Electric Service Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1939
- Montgomery-Ward & Co., Inc. v. SewellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
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