Beck v. Texas Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from Harris County. Beck sued the Texas Company and had judgment. On defendant’s appeal this was reversed and rendered in its favor. Appellee, plaintiff, then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibreld
As shown by the allegations of the third amended original petition filed in the District Court of Harris County, on April 10, 1909, this was a suit by plaintiff, Mike Beck, against the defendants, Texas Company and the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff while in the service of the Texas Company. Said company was incorporated for the purposes, among others, of buying, selling, storing and trans porting oil and gas, with the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and to lay pipe and pipe lines across and under any…
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