Community Public Service Co. v. Baker

WARREN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege.

Appellee sustained electrical burns when a telephone pole which supported telephone wires belonging to Bell Telephone and electrical transmission wires belonging to appellant fell, causing the electrical wires to strike appellee.

In answer to appellant’s plea of privilege, appellee pled subdivisions 9a, 23 and 29a, Article 1995, V.A.C.S., as exceptions to the general venue rule.

The trial court in its findings of fact and conclusions of law found, among other things, that appellant failed to properly replace the…