Houston Lighting & Power Co. v. Jenkins

This is an appeal from an order overruling the plea of privilege of the appellant, Houston Lighting & Power Company, a private corporation, to be sued in Harris county, the place of its domicile, or, in the alternative, to be sued in Wharton county; it being alleged in the plea of privilege that appellee’s petition showed her suit to be an action for damages to lands situated in Wharton county, so as to bring it within the meaning of subdivision 14 of article 1995, R. S. 1925, ¿which reads, in part, as follows:

“Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, ⅜ * ⅜ must be brought in the…