HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORPORATION v. PEARCE

No. 13170.

311 S.W.2d 899 (1958)

HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. W. B. PEARCE et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Robert M. Welch, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

John V. Wheat, James T. Wright, Houston, Dyche, Wheat & Thornton, Houston, of counsel, for appellees.


WERLEIN, Justice.

This suit was filed March 23, 1953, by appellees, W. B. Pearce et al., against appellant, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, to recover damages to their building allegedly caused by appellant's negligent failure to properly backfill and tamp a ditch or trench it had excavated in front of appellees' building in June, 1950, for a gas pipeline. The case was tried to the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment for appellees in the sum of $10,500...

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