Burge v. Dallas Retail Merchants Ass'n

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This case involves two appeals: One from an order overruling defendant’s plea of privilege; the other from a later order granting plaintiff a temporary injunction restraining defendant from using a certain trade-name. We shall consider both appeals in this opinion.

Appellee, Dallas Retail Merchants Association, plaintiff in the trial court, is an unincorporated association of retail merchants doing business in the City of Dallas and belonging to the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. It is a voluntary nonprofit organization which has operated since 1922 as a division of the…