Chunn v. McRae

T. F. T. McEae brought suit in the city court of Greenville against Gulf Eeffning Company and J. W. Chunn Jr., alleging: that J. W. Chunn Jr. was agent of Gulf Eeffning Company ; that while the latter was transferring gasoline from its truck into a storage tank of McEae, at Warm Springs, Georgia, the gasoline became ignited and set fire to and burned plaintiff’s storehouse; that the fire was caused by the negligence of Chunn, either by reason of his failure to equip his truck with a static chain, with the result that static electricity generated a spark which ignited the gasoline, or that, in…