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Joe Rollins
Joseph Guy Rollins, Jr. (April 21, 1918 – November 2, 2008), known as Joe Rollins, was a prominent Texas attorney and civic leader, perhaps best known for his successful fight against a lawsuit〔City of Houston v. R.F. Ball Construction Co., 570 SW 2d 75. (Tex. App.-Houston (District ) 1978〕 in regard to cost overruns and construction delays in the establishment of what became Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The plaintiff, R.F. Ball Construction Company of San Antonio, protested that Houston municipal officials, the defendants represented by then assistant city attorney Rollins, made four hundred design changes for the airport terminals and caused the firm and its subcontractors serious losses. The airport opened in June 1969, more than two years behind schedule. Ball Construction maintained that the city-mandated changes increased construction costs from approximately $17 million to $28 million. The trial court ruled in favor of Ball Construction, but the judge reduced the requested $8 million in damages to $5.1 million. The 14th Court of Appeals unanimously reversed that ruling, and the Texas Supreme Court concurred with the appeals court.〔"(Lawyer, WW II Navy veteran and volunteer tutor, Joe Rollins was fluent in three languages )," ''Houston Chronicle'' on-line, November 17, 2008.〕
==Early years, education, military==
Rollins was born to Joseph Guy Rollins and the former Ethel Stratton in Merit in Hunt County near Dallas at the home of his maternal grandparents, Robert B. Stratton and the former Julia Hardy. Rollins graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. In 1938, he completed his bachelor's degree at Texas A&M University in College Station. He thereafter earned his law degree in 1941 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.〔
During World War II, Rollins enlisted in the United States Navy even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. From 1943–1945, he was the commanding officer of the ''U.S.S. Curlew AM 69''. In October 1943, he directed a group of minesweepers that successfully cleared the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal of German submarine-laid naval mines which had shut down the waterway for two critical weeks of the war. Rollins received a Letter of Commendation for his "fine seamanship under difficult conditions". After the war, Rollins was active in the Naval Reserve for eleven years and was commanding officer of the Reserve Electronics Unit in Sherman in north Texas.〔"(Obituary: Joseph Guy "Joe" Rollins, Boulder, CO )," ''Boulder Daily Camera''.〕
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