SONKEN-GALAMBA CORP. v. ATCHISON, T. & S. F. RY. CO.

No. 41.

29 F.Supp. 796 (1939)

SONKEN-GALAMBA CORPORATION et al. v. ATCHISON, T. & S. F. RY. CO. et al.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Fort Worth Division.

May 27, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aubrey G. Alexander, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Ringolsky, Boatright & Jacobs and Bernard L. Glover, all of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiffs.

R. S. Outlaw, of Chicago, Ill., Terry, Cavin & Mills and G. B. Ross, all of Galveston, Tex., and Wren & Jeffrey, of Fort Worth, Tex., for defendant Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.

C. S. Burg, of St. Louis, Mo., and Chas. C. Huff and G. H. Penland, both of Dallas, Tex., for defendant Missouri-Kansas-Texas Ry. Co. of Texas.

Cantey, Hanger, McMahon, McKnight & Johnson, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Robert Thompson, M. E. Clinton, and T. D. Gresham, all of Dallas, Tex., for defendant Texas & P. Ry. Co.


WILSON, District Judge.

In recent years there has been a heavy movement in this country of junk or scrap iron to our seaports, destined to foreign countries, presumably for manufacture into implements of war. This continued to a point well nigh beyond our railroad and shipping facilities. The plaintiffs were very large dealers in, and shippers of, such material. To meet this foreign demand they resorted to the purchase of old oil storage tanks, which they knocked...

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