Hitt v. East Texas Theatres, Inc.

HALL, Chief Justice.

This suit grows out of the willful burning, of appellee’s theatre in Smith County,, Texas, by its local manager, Joe Hackney. Appellants, plaintiffs below, -instituted this suit against appellee and alleged that as a result of the willful burning of appellee’s theatre by Hackney at the instigation of his immediate superior, S. L. Oakley, their building and contents adjoining the the-atre were destroyed for which they sought damages against appellee. Appellants-averred further that if the burning of the theatre was not instigated by appellee, then it ratified and adopted…