Yoakum Grain, Inc. v. Energy Industries, Inc.

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is a bailment case. As a result of a collision between two trucks which caused damage to a twenty-nine ton gas compressor package one of them was hauling, the corporate owner of the package sought redress against both corporate truck owners. The package owner, Energy Industries, Inc., sued the carrier, B. F. Walker, Inc., and a third party, Yoakum Grain, Inc.

Walker contracted to transport the package belonging to Energy, but consigned to Humble Oil & Refining Company, from Corpus Christi, Texas, to a destination in Bastrop County, Texas. On October 26, 1970, while…