Melton v. Baldwin-United Leasing Co.

HALL, Justice.

This is a venue ease involving subdivisions 4, 5(b), and 29a of Article 1995, Vernon’s Tex.Civ.St., in a suit on an assigned lease agreement of an automobile filed in the county of residence of the lessor-assign- or. The trial court overruled the lessee’s plea of privilege to have the case against him transferred to the county of his residence. We reverse the judgment.

Brazos Valley Motors, a Texas corporation located in McLennan County, Texas, sells and leases cars. Robert Thompson, not a party to this suit, wanted to lease a 1980 Porsche automobile from Brazos, but he failed to…