Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Collier

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from an order overruling a plea of privilege. Appellee instituted this suit as an original proceeding in the district court for the purpose of setting aside a compromise agreement alleged to have been procured by fraud. Appellant filed its plea of privilege to be sued, in Dallas county, the county of its domicile. The controverting affidavit, omitting its formal parts, was as follows: “That Texas Employers Insurance Association, defendant named in plaintiff’s petition, is a private corporation created by an act of the Legislature, article S30S of the…