Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Brown

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The Stanolind Oil & Gas Company appeals from a judgment obtained against it in an action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of Lillie Brown, who was fatally injured in an explosion of gas. One of the grounds of negligence alleged was that gas was permitted to escape from appellant’s gas pipe line. The action was defended on the ground that the gas which was exploded did not come from the pipe line, but, if it did, that the alleged negligence was not the proximate cause of the injury complained of. At the close of the evidence, the trial court refused to…