Gulf Coast Business Forms, Inc. v. Texas Employment Commission

With respect, I dissent. The Texas Unemployment Compensation Act (Art. 5221b-l et seq., V.A.C.S.) does not set the venue in this type of suit.

Art. 1995 reads that “[n]o person who is an inhabitant of this State shall be sued out of the county in which he has his domicile except in the following cases . ” So the effect of the majority opinion is to hold that the State of Texas is domiciled only in Travis County. I agree that this holding is supported by Fitts v. Calvert, 374 S.W.2d 274 (Tex.Civ.App., Fort Worth, 1963, dism.) and Texas Highway Department v. Jarrell, 379 S.W.2d 417…