Sinclair Pipe Line Company v. Lipscomb

BOYD, Justice.

Appellant Sinclair Pipe Line Company filed suit for damages against appellees Victoria County Drainage District No. 2 and W. L. Lipscomb and Alvin Lipscomb, doing business as W. L. Lipscomb & Son Dragline. It was appellant’s contention that the Drainage District engaged the Lipscombs to clean out certain drainage ditches in the district area and that in cleaning out one of the ditches their employee negligently struck appellant’s pip's line with a bulldozer, thereby causing the damages complained of.

The Drainage' District’s motion to be dismissed from the suit was sustained, and…