Keener Oil & Gas Co. v. Bushong

This is an appeal from ,a judgment in favor of defendant in error in an action for damages for personal injury.

The parties will be referred to as in the trial court.

On and prior to November 28, 1927, defendant owned and operated a gas line which crossed a public highway. On that day plaintiff, then employed by the Tidal Oil Company, while driving a truck along said highway, was injured and severely burned as a result of the ignition of gas which had escaped from the defendant’s pipe line. The break in the gas line was caused by operation of a grader drawn by a tractor operated by county…