Joy v. Marshall Field &. Co.

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court overruling appellant’s plea of privilege. The material facts are without dispute. Appellant has maintained a residence for himself and wife and children for more than thirty-five years at Terrell in Kaufman county. He has for many years been engaged in the compress business, and owns compresses located at a number of towns in Texas and Oklahoma. For many years, and up to the. time of trial of this case, he maintained an ofiice in Dallas county, Tex., and in said ofiice he had a bed where he usually slept when he spent his nights in Dallas.…