Lone Star Gas Co. v. Eckel

BROWN, Justice.

Appellee brought suit against appellant, Lone Star Gas Company, and one R. E. Weir, who was alleged to be a plumber employed by Fort Worth Independent School District, for personal injuries sustained by appellee in a building owned by such school district, while he was working on the premises as a “PWA” employee; said appellee having been burned by an explosion that occurred in the school building known as an “annex” to the main building.

Appellant had been furnishing natural gas to the school district for use in its main building.

The gist of appellee’s case is that while he was…