City of Longview v. Head

JIM WORTHEN, Justice.

Appellee, Jim Head, owns and operates amusement machines known as eight-linr ers. He filed a declaratory judgment action regarding the legality of his machines naming as defendants the City of Long-view and A.J. Key, in his official capacity as Chief of Police (collectively “the City”) and Bobby Weaver, Sheriff of Gregg County. The two companion cases before us are interlocutory appeals from the trial court’s denial of two pleas to the jurisdiction filed separately by the City and Weaver (collectively “Appellants”) in a single case in the trial court. In two separate…