Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Commercial Metals Co. of Houston

BELL, Chief Justice.

Appellee, Commercial Metals Company of Houston, herein called Commercial, recovered judgment against appellant in the amount of $960.37, this being the reasonable value of copper wire allegedly belonging to Commercial and allegedly converted by appellant. Appellee, Scrap, Inc. of Texas, herein called Scrap, recovered judgment against Commercial for $560.44. There is no complaint of the judgment against Commercial unless we should reverse the judgment against appellant. Appellant, however, appeals from the judgment against it.

It appears that sometime in 1959, Scrap bought…