Compton Transport Co. v. Jones County

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege. Jones County, Texas, brought suit against W. S. Compton,1 E. R. Compton and Mrs. M. D. Compton, a partnership doing business under the firm name of Compton Transport Company, and against W..S. Smith.

*896Plaintiff sought judgment against the defendants. for $9,000 alleged to have been the amount of damages sustained to a bridge on a road in Jones County as a result of negligence by the defendant W. S. Smith in driving a heavily loaded truck upon said bridge. It was .alleged that Smith was -at- the time an employee in…