H. E. Butt Grocery Company v. Davis

HUGHES, Justice.

This is a venue case. Juanita Davis and husband Morris C. Davis, sued H. E. Butt Grocery Company, a corporation, for damages for injuries allegedly sustained by Mrs. Davis as a result of her detention and search by employes of appellant. A plea of privilege was filed by appellant requesting transfer of the suit to Nueces County, the county of its residence and the county in which its principal place of business was located.

Thereafter, April 22, 1969, appellees filed an amended original petition in which Linda Toll and Carl Wayne Smith1 were added as defendants. On the same day…