Bellevue Gas & Oil Co. v. Carr
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Oklahoma County; John W. Hayson, Judge. Action by D. C. Carr against the Bellevue Gas & Oil Company, a corporation, and the town of Mounds, a municipal corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
EDWARDS, 0.
For convenience and brevity tbe defendant in error will be referred to as the plaintiff, the plaintiff in error Bellevue Gas & Oil Company as the Gas. Company, and the defendant the town of Mounds as town of Mounds.
The plaintiff, while engaged as a scavenger and while traveling along an alley in the-town of Mounds, on the night of July 13, 1915, with a lantern accidentally ignited the gas from a leaky pipe of the defendant Gas Company, causing an explosion by which he was burned and injured. The defendants were sued jointly; the plaintiff alleging that his injuries were…
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