Dominguez v. Montgomery

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

The sole question in this, Jimmy Dominguez’s appeal from a judgment rendered by the district court of Hockley County on a jury verdict, decreeing his monetary recovery from Jim Montgomery and Mart Montgomery for conversion, is whether the district court of Lubbock County, where the suit originally was filed, properly sustained the Montgomerys’ pleas of privilege to be sued in Hockley County. Concluding that the court erroneously sustained the pleas, we will sustain Dominguez’s point of error, reverse the judgment, and remand the cause for transfer to Lubbock County.

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