WB Johnson Drilling Company v. Lacy

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is a plea of privilege case. Robert E. Lacy and wife, Earlene G. Lacy, brought suit in Coleman County against N. E. Loomis and W. B. Johnson, individually and as partners operating under the name of W. B. Johnson Drilling Company, Joe Mucher and the Premier Oil Refining Company, a corporation, all of Longview, in Gregg County, Texas, and against Hunt Graham, independent executor of the estate of Manor Graham, deceased, of Tyler, Smith County, Texas. The defendants filed pleas of privilege to be sued in the respective counties of their residence. Such pleas were…