North Texas Oil & Refining Co. v. Standard Tank Car Co.

The Standard Tank Car Company, a corporation domiciled at Sharon, in the state of Pennsylvania, controls a line of tank cars which it leases to others, and the North Texas Oil Refining Company, an unincorporated association of persons operating under a trust agreement, and having offices at Greenville and San Antonio, Tex., was engaged in refining and transporting petroleum products. On February 9, 1920, the two companies entered into a written contract by which the car company subleased to the oil company 50 tank cars for a term ending March 31, 1922, at the rate of $85 a month per car. In…