Standard Oil Co. of La. v. Gray

STATEMENT OF FACTS.

This suit was brought by appellee for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the oil company from the back-firing of a gas engine used in operating an oil well.

It was alleged that the engine died, and appellee and his co-workers had difficulty in starting the same, and removed the cap off the air mixer, as it would start more easily with the cap off, and that they succeeded in getting the engine started, and that the plaintiff reached over for the cap of the air mixer to replace it, and, when he did so, the engine back-fired, the explosion coming…