American Pub. Co. v. Holland

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

Appeal from an interlocutory order overruling a plea of privilege seeking to change the venue to the county (Travis) of appellant’s residence. The suit is one for damages for publication of an allegedly libel-pus article concerning appellee in “The Austin American,” a newspaper published in Travis county and alleged to be owned ¡by appellant. No proof was offered upon the fact of such ownership, which omission forms the basis of appellant’s assertion of reversible error.

While the issue thus raised has been the subject of much conflict of opinion among the several…