Court of Appeals of Tennessee April 9, 1927 (Rose v. Abeel Bros.)

PORTRUM, J.

On July 18, 1925, plaintiffs in error, Abeel Bros., were conducting a filling station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and while emptying a truck tank, which conveyed the gasoline into a underground storage tank from which they supplied their customers, the underground tank became-full and ran over, the gasoline running across the sidewalks nearby and into the gutter.