Bryant v. Spear

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

Laura Bryant, surviving widow of Lige Bryant, deceased, and her children instituted this suit in one of the district courts of Bexar county against Angus Spear, the Bos-tex Oil Corporation, and a number of other defendants not necessary here to name. The residence of Spear was alleged in the petition to be in Gregg county, and that of the Bostex Oil Corporation to be in Bexar county. In that portion of the petition denominated “First Cause of Action,” appellants alleged that Lige Bryant, now deceased, and his wife, Laura Bryant, one of the plaintiffs, were induced by…