Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Athens Lodge No. 165

SPEER, Justice.

This suit was filed in the District Court of Henderson County, Texas, by Athens Lodge No. 165, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a corporation, and Roy Cathey and Tommie Carrell, composing the partnership of Cathey and Carrell Truck Lines.

For brevity we shall refer to plaintiff as Lodge, to the corporation defendant as A. & P., and to the other defendants as Truck Lines.

The Lodge sought recovery against A. & P. for possession of the first floor of a described store building, certain unpaid rentals, and against all defendants, A.…