El Paso Natural Gas Company v. Harris

OPINION

FRASER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal in which the District Court of the above county granted judgment for $37,500.00 to plaintiff Thella Harris and the sum of $10,000.00 to the in-tervenor, Texas Employers Insurance Association; and the court further decreed that plaintiffs Oliver F. Harris and Jimmie Harris take nothing.

On the night of November 21, 1961, at approximately 4:00 A.M., one Buddy Keene Harris was found at the bottom of a 12-foot tank, unconscious. His body was close to the bottom of the ladder that led up to the top of the tank. He never regained consciousness and this…