Lone Star Gas Co. v. Striplin

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Judgment was for the plaintiff in a suit for damages on account of personal injuries received when he went to private residential premises to repair a break in the gas line between the meter of the Lone Star Gas Company and the line leading therefrom into the building proper. An explosion resulting in his injuries occurred at about the time he began work.

The case was tried by plaintiff on the theory that although the leakage of gas between the meter and the building proper had been promptly stopped by use of the cut-off valve at the meter, the company, in the exercise of…