Nortex Oil & Gas Corporation v. Clark

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents a venue question involving Subd. 7, Art. 1995, Vernon’s Ann. Civ.St.

Appellant Nortex Oil & Gas Corporation brought suit in Dallas County against Max D. Clark, W. E. Mitchell, Jr., Tom Cook, Joe W. Hart and G. U. Yoachum, residents of Gregg County, Texas, alleging conspiracy and fraud in the sale by Clark to Nortex of his .09375 working interest in the Annie Dickson Oil and Gas Lease. Nortex alleges that at the time of the sale Clark knew the interest was worthless because the only oil well on the lease was a “slant well”, that is, the well deviated…