Texas Highway Department v. Kimble County

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellees-against appellant for a declaratory judgment, seeking adjudication as to the proper county in which the motor vehicles of Alamo Motor Lines should be registered.

Article 6675a-2, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., requires every owner of a motor vehicle used or to be used upon the public highways-of this State to apply each year to the State Highway Department through the County Tax Collector “of the county in which he resides” for registration of such vehicles.

The controlling question to be determined in this appeal is the legal residence of…