State v. Swift & Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

The State of Texas instituted this suit against Swift & Company, herein called Swift, an Illinois meat packing corporation with permit to do business in Texas, and against Consumers Cotton Oil Company, herein called Consumers, a Texas corporation engaged in the cottonseed oil mill and gin business in Texas. The State alleged that Swift owns all of the stock of Consumers and so dominates and controls it as to make Swift in fact doing the cottonseed oil mill and gin business in Texas without a permit to do so, in violation of the provision of Art. 1529, R.S.1925, requiring a…