National Bankers Life Insurance Company v. Adler

POPE, Justice.

National Bankers Life Insurance Company, hereafter called corporation, appealed from an order which dismissed its plea of privilege to be sued in Dallas County after the trial court sustained special exceptions to the plea. Plaintiffs excepted on the basis that they brought the suit in Kendall County as minority stockholders in a purely derivative suit, and that the corporation could not urge a plea of privilege as a defendant, because it was the actual plaintiff. Whether the court properly sustained the special exceptions to the plea of privilege is the first question…