City of Pasadena v. State Ex Rel. City of Houston

CONCURRING OPINION

COLEMAN, Justice.

Upon the submission and oral argument of this cause, Chief Justice Spurgeon E. Bell announced that he was the owner of 100 shares of the common stock of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Associate Justice Ewing Werlein announced that he either owned, or had a beneficial interest in the income from, a comparable number of shares in the same company. Since it was common knowledge that all of the stock of Humble Oil & Refining Company, one of the relators herein, is owned by that company, the Chief Justice requested briefs from the parties as to whether such…