Opinion ID: 1059000
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Toilet pumping as a separate service

Text: The trial court's letter opinion does recite that LZM's pumping service is not offered as a separate service to individuals. The trial court also noted that LZM sometimes pumps the toilets of other rental companies and charges those companies for the service. LZM's competitors provide a reciprocal service to LZM where the circumstances make it economically practical. Larry Z. Martin, LZM's representative, testified that LZM does not compete with these other companies for the toilet pumping service, nor does LZM advertise prices for pumping services. Martin testified that pumping the toilets of another company is a respected tradition between the rental businesses for the convenience of all toilet rental businesses. Essentially, the trial court found, as we noted in the discussion of LZM's first assignment of error, supra, that LZM was not in the business of pumping portable toilets, but did so only to make its rental business practical. That finding is supported by the record.