Dudding v. Automatic Gas Co.

Petitioners sued in the district court of Hunt County to restrain respondent from erecting and maintaining storage tanks for butane gas near petitioners’ residence in a suburb of Green-ville. The tanks, which were in process of erection when the suit was filed, were 128 feet from petitioners’ residence and 127 feet from the nearest building. The combined capacity of the two tanks respondent intended to erect was 18,400 water gallons. Upon hearing without a jury, the trial court granted a temporary injunction, the findings of the court reciting that the storage of the proposed quantity of…