Collins v. FM Equipment Company

This is a venue case. The appeal to this Court is from an order of the trial court overruling a plea of privilege which was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 340 S.W. 2d 867.

Plaintiff, F. M. Equipment Company, Inc., filed this suit in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas, against the defendants, M. Z. Collins et al., who resided in Travis County, Texas, alleging that the defendants had entered into three lease-rental contracts and that under the terms of such contracts, the rentals sued for were due and payable in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; and that, therefore, the suit was…