Davis v. Teche Lines, Inc.

PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiff, Everett Davis, seeks to recover from the defendant, the Teche Lines, Inc., damages in the amount of $4,-609.10, with legal interest from judicial demand, occasioned by a fire which he claims originated through the negligence of the employee or employees of the defendant.

On September 9, 1939, at approximately 12 :30 A. M., shortly after midnight, while an employee of the defendant was engaged in filling the gas tank of a bus in the defendant’s station at Lafayette, La., a fire occurred which destroyed the bus station and the adjoining building which was occupied…