Alpha Guard, Inc. v. Callahan Chemical Co.

SHANNON, Justice.

This cause is in this Court by writ of error from a default judgment for $13,900 entered by the district court of Travis County against petitioner Alpha Guard, Incorporated. Respondent is Callahan Chemical Company. The issue is whether the district court obtained jurisdiction of petitioner by substituted service of process on the Secretary of State in accordance with Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 2031b (1964).

In its trial petition respondent pleaded that petitioner “ . . . is a corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, at P.O. Box 7482, and doing business in Texas.…