Fort Worth Gas Co. v. Bragg

Henry Bragg filed this suit against the Fort Worth Gas Company and J. O. and B. E. Montrief, partners, composing the firm of Montrief & Montrief, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him on November 15,1924, as the result of an explosion of natural gas in the basement of the Ritz Theater building in the city of Fort Worth. He alleged that Montrief & Montrief were engaged in converting a coal burner heating plant into a gas burner heating plant in said' theater, and had left an open pipe extending into said basement, through which gas escaped into the basement, and, coming into…