LONE STAR GAS CO. v. DENTON

No. 3201.

270 S.W.2d 245 (1954)

LONE STAR GAS CO. v. DENTON et ux.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied July 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson, Knight, Wright & Simmons and W. B. Allen, Jr., Dallas, for appellant.

J. Webb Stollenwerck, Hillsboro, Ralph Norvell, Jr., Waco, for appellees.


TIREY, Justice.

Appellees brought this suit against appellant for damages on account of the loss of four shade trees, their suit being grounded on alleged negligence of appellant's agent in permitting propane gas to escape into the limbs and branches of the trees while filling a tank with propane gas. The jury in its verdict found that the death of the trees was not caused by an unavoidable accident; that gas escaped from the storage tank of the plaintiffs into their...

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