Cameron Mill & Elevator Co. v. Anderson

GAINES, Chief Justice.

The following statement of this case is taken from the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals:

“By permission of the city council appellant caused to be dug in one of the streets of the city of Fort Worth, adjacent to its elevator plant, a hole some thirty-four feet long, twenty-eight feet wjde and twelve or fourteen feet deep'. The excavation was made for the purpose of putting in some underground storage tanks for fuel oil. Into this pit appellee, a boy of 13 years, fell and was seriously injured. The accident occurred about 9 o’clock at night, at a time when none of the…