Anglo Exploration Corp. v. Grayshon

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

In this venue case, appellants, defendants below, Anglo Exploration Corporation and A. W. Dugan, were sued by appellees, plaintiffs below, John Grayshon and Robert W. Hopf to recover certain overriding royalty interests in several oil and gas leases, or in the alternative cash damages. Appellants filed a plea of privilege to be sued in the county of their residences and appellees controverted asserting that the suit should remain in Gonzales County, Texas, where the disputed leases were located, under Tex. Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1995(7), (14), (27) and (29a).1 After a…