Baldwin Music Shop, Inc. v. Watson

WALKER, Chief Justice.

The nature of this suit is fully stated in our opinion on the former appeal, reported Baldwin Music Shop, Inc. v. Watson, 88 *479S.W.(2d) 516. This appeal is from a judgment of the county court of Shelby county in favor of appellee against appellant sustaining his plea in abatement and answer that appellant was a foreign corppration transacting business in Texas without a permit.

Under the evidence, appellant was a foreign corporation without a permit to do business in Texas; It maintained an office in Shreveport, La., where it kept its stock of pianos. It sent its pianos to…