Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Hamer

O’QUINN, Justice.

Appellant, Humble Oil & Refining Company, is a corporation domiciled in Harris county, where it owns and operates a large oil refinery. As a part of its refinery equipment it owns and operates a short line of railroad extending into the refinery, but it is in no sense a railroad corporation, and the operation of the railroad is merely incidental to its corporate purposes, which in part are as follows: “The storing, transporting, buying and selling of oil, gas, salt, brine, and other mineral solutions; also the prospecting for and producing, treating, refining, reducing, and…