New Nueces Hotel Co. v. Sorenson

Mr. Judge CRITZ

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Nueces County, Texas, by L. Sorenson against New Nueces Hotel Company, a private corporation, the City of Corpus Christi, a municipal corporation, and W. C. Thrailkill for damages alleged to have been sustained by him as the result of a gas explosion in the hotel building belonging to New Nueces Hotel Company in Corpus Christi, Texas, on May 13, 1929.

Sorenson’s petition alleges, in substance, that at, and prior to the explosion the hotel company owned and operated…