Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Middleton

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued appellant in the County Court of Brown County to recover damages for injuries to a shipment of horses from Brownwood, in Brown County, to Waskom, Texas. The shipment was over the Port Worth & Rio Grande Railway from Brown-wood to Fort Worth, and over appellant’s railway from Fort Worth to Waskom.

The Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway was not made a party to the suit, and the defendant, the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, filed a plea of privilege, asserting that the venue of the suit was improperly laid in Brown County, because the defendant’s road did not…