King v. C. M. Hapgood Shoe Co.

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

In the year 1895 the appellant R. D. King was a merchant doing business in the town of Crockett, Texas, and in said year erected in said town a brick building of three stories, and also a brick building of one story. The two buildings were in fact but parts of one structure; the two had one wall in common, and they were connected by a stairway running from the floor of the one story to an opening in the common wall in the second floor of the three-story building. The buildings were completed in the fall of 1895, and when completed the appellant R. D. King with his…