Sterling v. Community Natural Gas Co.

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Allen Sterling, brought this suit as next friend for his minor daughter, Vivian Sterling, to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her through the negligence of appellee, Community Natural Gas Company, a corporation. Appellant alleged that appellee was engaged in the sale and distribution of natural gas in the city of Wortham, and in that connection maintained at various points in the city, as a part of its equipment, certain cut-off boxes; that such boxes were cylindrical in shape and inserted in the earth; that one of such boxes…