Legal Security Life Insurance Co. v. Trevino

This case involves an appeal from a plea of privilege in a suit brought under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act, Tex.Bus. & Com.Code Ann., § 17.01, et seq. The decision of the court of civil appeals conflicts with the decision in Moore v. White, 587 S.W.2d 549 (Tex.Civ.App.—Dallas 1979, no writ), giving this Court jurisdiction pursuant to Tex.Rev.Civ. Stat.Ann. art. 1728(2).

Conflict with Moore v. White was not alleged in petitioner’s original application for writ of error, and the application for writ of error was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. John Farrell Lumber Co.…