H.E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Snodgrass

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is a venue case wherein appellant, H.E. Butt Grocery Company, is appealing from an order overruling its plea of privilege. Appellee, Lois Snodgrass, a resident of Hidalgo County, Texas, brought suit in the County Court at Law No. 2 of Hidalgo County to recover damages for personal injuries she sustained when a soft drink bottle fell through the bottom of a carton she was holding and cut her leg. Appellant filed a plea of privilege to be sued in Nuec-es County, the county of its domicile. Ap-pellee filed a controverting affidavit alleging that the suit was lawfully…