Rio Grande Land & Cattle Co. v. Light

OPINION

REEVES, Justice.

This appeal involves the operations of a cattle feed lot. In the fall of 1979 and the spring of 1980, George E. Light III, Dan Kinsel Jr., K.L. Cattle Co., and K.L. Bar Cattle Co. (the plaintiffs) 1 sent several thousand head of cattle to be fed for sale to Rio Grande Land and Cattle Co., a Texas corporation. Rio Grande was owned by four individuals: Lee Bowen, Bob Re-bholtz, Rich Hormaechea, and Robert Hayes. After the plaintiffs’ animals were fed and sold, the plaintiffs were billed for the feed and services rendered to their animals by Rio Grande. The amount the…