Houston Gas & Fuel Co. v. Spradlin

The appellee, Mrs. Spradlin, a married woman, merely joining her husband with her pro forma, without averment that he had abandoned her or for other reason had refused to become a real party to the action, sued to recover damages for personal injuries to herself from a natural gas explosion in her home, alleged to have proximately resulted from the negligence of the appellant; throughout the entire petition not only was it alleged that she alone as plaintiff sustained the liability and the damage, her husband not being again mentioned, but the prayer was that she as plaintiff recover damages…