CENTENNIAL ROYALTY CO. v. Byrd & Foster Drilling, Inc.

OPINION

RAMSEY, Chief Justice.

This is a venue case. Byrd & Foster Drilling, Inc., as plaintiff, filed suit in Ector County against M. Ray Hart and Centennial Royalty Company, as defendants. Defendant Centennial Royalty Company filed a plea of privilege which was overruled after a non-jury trial. No pleadings were included in the record in so far as the defendant M. Ray Hart is concerned. Plaintiff relied solely on subdivision 5 of Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, Article 1995. We hold that plaintiff established venue facts under that sub division, and affirm. The parties will be designated…