Behrens v. Brice
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Harris County. Tried below before Hon. Norman G. Kittrell.
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, Associate Justice.
— This" suit was brought by appellant, plaintiff below, against W- E. Brice, Howard B. Hughes, W. B. Sharp and the Heywood Oil Cpmpany, for the recovery of damages sustained by her on account of the death of her son, Andrew J. Hennigan, Jr., whose death was alleged to be due to poisonous gases inhaled by him, negligently permitted to escape from defendants’ oil wells and tanks. It was alleged that at the time of his death, to wit, August 15, 1903, each and all of the defendants were oil producers, being owners of oil wells and tanks located in the Shoestring district…
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