Peden Iron & Steel Co. v. El Campo Rice Milling Co.

For a comprehensive understanding of the opinion to follow we make the following statement: Appellant, Peden Iron & Steel Company, is a private corporation, domiciled at Houston, Harris county, Tex., and engaged in a general hardware business. Appellee, El Campo Rice Milling Company, is also a corporation domiciled in Wharton county, Tex., engaged in the business of irrigating lands for raising rice and for milling rice, and in the conduct of its business it was necessary for it to use steam engines and boilers-. R. Hi Hancock was the general manager of appellee company. Some time in the…