West Texas Utilities Co. v. Wills

BLAIR, Justice.

This appeal is from an order overruling the plea of privilege of appellant, West Texas Utilities Company, a corporation, to be sued in Taylor County, the county of its residence. The plea of privilege was duly controverted, the controverting affidavit, itself, succinctly stating a cause of action for slander in strict accord with the requirements prescribed for such controverting affidavit by the Supreme Court in the recent case of A. H. Belo Corporation v. Blanton, Tex.Sup., 129 S.W.2d 619. Appellant concedes that the controverting affidavit sufficiently alleged a cause of…