ROMERO v. HORLOCK

No. 47.

425 S.W.2d 679 (1968)

Manuel ROMERO, Appellant, v. Roy, M. HORLOCK, d/b/a the Horlock Company, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Nagle, Houston, for appellant.

F. Walter Conrad, Jr., Robert, J. Malinak, Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, T. Turner Pope, Kamp, Laswell & Howard, Houston, for appellee.

Pearson Grimes, Houston; and Butler, Binion. Rice, Cook & Knapp. Houston, for intervenor.


TUNKS, Chief Justice.

In 1963, the defendant, Roy M. Horlock, appellee here, undertook to construct some apartments or townhouses on a tract of land owned by him in Houston, Texas. In the construction the defendant did not use a general contractor, but, rather, entered into various independent contracts for the performance of particular portions of the construction. In one of those contracts, Gulf Plastering Company, agreed to do the plastering work upon the buildings...

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