FORCUM-DEAN CO. v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

No. 13661.

341 S.W.2d 464 (1960)

FORCUM-DEAN COMPANY, Appellant, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

November 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward & Brown, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Sharpe & Hardy, Brownsville, Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Houston, for appellee.


BARROW, Justice.

This is a suit by appellant, Forcum-Dean Company, a partnership composed of citizens of Colorado, against appellee, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, for damages to cantaloupes shipped in 1957 from Avondale, Colorado, to New York City. The defendant answered by a plea invoking the doctrine of forum non conveniens. The trial court heard evidence on the plea and thereafter sustained the plea and dismissed...

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