Downer v. Southern Union Gas Co.

McGHEE, Justice.

The appellant, defendant below, seeks the reversal of a judgment for $5,000 awarded to the appellee, plaintiff below, in accordance with the verdict of a jury on account of the death of Monte Davis Payne, Jr., a child of the age of 2 years and 8 months, who was run over by a truck being driven by a 17 year old employee of the defendant. We will refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court

The defendant operated a gas treating plant on a lease at Barker Dome in San Juan County, where it maintained six houses 'built along a private roadway for the use of its employes.…