Granberry v. Texas Public Service Co.

STOKES, Justice.

Appellant, H. B. Granberry, instituted this action against appellee, Texas Public Service Company, a corporation, to recover damages for the alleged conversion of certain electric lighting fixtures and an old elevator that had been removed from appellant’s building and stored in the warehouse of appellee. The record shows that appellee, during the year 1913 or prior thereto, while it was operating under the name of Austin Gas Light Company, leased from appellant a two-story building in the city of Austin which it used for many years thereafter as its general offices and…