BROWN SUPPLY COMPANY v. Rushing

DENTON, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by S. S. Rushing and some fourteen other individuals and two gin companies against Brown Supply Company and George L. Gallegos for dam■ages allegedly caused by the cutting and repairing of a natural gas line. A jury verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiffs below, and from a judgment rendered on 'this verdict the defendants below have perfected this appeal.

Brown Supply was engaged to install underground concrete irrigation pipe on the Rushing farm. A plastic natural gas line which fed gas to the meters of the plaintiffs ran across the…