Summers v. Skillern & Sons, Inc.

TIREY, Justice.

This cause (non jury) is an appeal from an order sustaining the plea of privilege of the defendant, Skillern & Sons, Inc., to be sued in Dallas County, the alleged place of its residence. Appellants, plaintiffs, sought to recover damages for the wrongful imprisonment of his wife, Paula Jean Summers, age twenty. Appellee seasonably filed its plea of privilege to be sued in Dallas County, the county of its residence, and plaintiffs filed their controverting affidavit and alleged substantially that venue lies in Tarrant County by virtue of the provisions of subdivision 23 of Art.…