Goodrum v. Hobbs

BAUGH, Justice.

Appeal is from an order overruling defendant’s plea of privilege to be sued in Guadalupe county, the county of his residence. Suit was by Hobbs for damages to his truck occasioned by reason of alleged negligence of the agents of Goodrum in the operation of what is commonly known as a steam shovel, being used in loading gravel on said truck. The gravel was being hauled from the gravel pit for use in building a highway. Venue was laid in Caldwell county, under subdivision 9, of article 1995, E. S. 1925, on the ground that the negligence alleged constituted a trespass committed by…