General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Wilcox

BLAIR, Justice.

This appeal is from an order overruling the plea of privilege of appellant to he sued in Bexar county, its domicile. Appellee sued appellant in Williamson county for damages for the conversion of an automobile on which he had a chattel mortgage, and maintained venue in that county under subdivision 9 of article 1995, which provides that where a suit is based upon a trespass it may be brought in the county where the trespass was committed.

The venue of the suit rests upon the time of the accrual of the cause of action for conversion of the automobile as being determinative of the…