Court Opinion

ID: 9834328
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:29:12.302152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:16:45.743299
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
On the motions presented we call attention to the contracts as to who of the parties thereunder should furnish the material to be used in constructing the road: The Southwestern Construction Company by contract with the railway company undertook to furnish all the material. The Texas Building Company, under its contract, only undertook to furnish the tools, teams, etc., and to do the labor and to receive the material and unload at the place designated. In receiving the material and placing it at the point designated it was performing its contract. Either the railway company or the construction company, the building company’s principal, selected the street into which the steel rails were to be unloaded, and in this matter either one or both, the railway company or the construction company, was negligent. In placing the steel rails in the street, the building company, under the contract, was but performing the direction of either one or both of said companies, and to that extent was the servant.
Both motions, the one by the railway company and by the construction company, are overruled.