Caddo Grocery & Ice v. Carpenter

GRAY, Justice.

This appeal is from an order overruling appellant’s plea of privilege.

Appellees Thomas F. Carpenter and Clarence F. Carpenter, father and son, sued Caddo Grocery and Ice (later referred to as Caddo), Alton C. Tomerlin, Frank O’Neal and W. F. Lindley. They alleged that all defendants except W. F. Lindley resided in Tom Green County and that he resided in Taylor County; that Caddo was the trade name of a retail business conducted in San Angelo and that it was owned by Alton C. Tomerlin and Frank O’Neal and that W. F. Lindley was engaged in the business of manufacturing sandwiches…