Lewis v. Taylor

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is a venue case. Appellee, R. W. Taylor, brought this suit in Gray County, against 'Quentin A. Lewis for damages to his trailer home resulting from a metal canopy erected as a covering for appellant’s gasoline pumps, blowing off its support and onto appellee’s trailer adjoining appellant’s filling station, reducing the trailer house and most of its contents to junk.

Appellant filed his plea of privilege to be sued in Potter County, the county of his residence. The plea was duly controverted and suit sought to be retained in Gray County, where the damages occurred, under…