Pesek v. Murrel's Welding Works, Inc.

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is a venue action. Eugene R. Pesek, the husband and father of plaintiffs, suffered fatal injuries while operating a hot oil truck in Frio County, Texas on January 24, 1976. Pesek was fatally burned in an explosion occurring while the hot oil unit was being used to recycle oil from a storage tank, with the oil being heated and then returned to the tank to make the oil less viscous. Plaintiffs’ suit was filed in Frio County, Texas against Murrel’s Welding Works, Inc., a resident of Hockley County, Texas, the designer and manufacturer of such hot oil truck, which was sold…