Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. v. Jim Dandy Fast Foods, Inc.

CIRE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a denial of a plea of privilege. Appellant Church’s Fried Chicken, Inc. is a Texas corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Bexar County. Appellee Jim Dandy Fast Foods, Inc. brought this declaratory judgment suit to interpret a contract executed in 1966 by the predecessors of the two parties. We affirm the trial court’s ruling.

The contract in question gave Jim Dandy the right to do business as “Church’s Fried Chicken” in an area delineated as follows:

All that territory within a radius of fifty (50) miles of the City Hall of the City of Houston, Texas, and…