Cabaniss v. Grayburg Oil Co.

Appellant sued appellee for damages resulting from partial destruction by fire of the Cabaniss Hotel building, belonging to appellant, alleging that the employees of appellee negligently sold and delivered to Miss Martha Johnson, the daughter and a member of the household of Julius Johnson, the tenant occupying the hotel, a gallon of gasoline, when she asked for coal oil or kerosene, intended to be used in a hot water heater which only used kerosene as fuel; that, acting upon the belief that the employees of appellee put kerosene in the jug or container, she delivered it to Russel Vines, a…