PORT TERMINAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION v. LEONHARDT

No. 15707.

289 S.W.2d 649 (1956)

PORT TERMINAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. W. C. LEONHARDT, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Bradley, Raymond A. Cook, and William H. Tenison, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Wade, Davis, Callaway & Marshall and Clyde M. Marshall, Jr., Fort Worth, for appellee.


MASSEY, Chief Justice.

The Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company joined with other railroads and persons in a joint enterprise in Harris County, Texas. The joint enterprise was the operation of the activities of normal railroad facilities servicing the wharves and water-transportation carriers along the Houston Ship Channel. In other words, the network of rail lines was operated as a joint venture rather than by each railroad corporation attempting to build and...

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