Coastal States Gas Producing Co. v. City of McAllen

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This case is an appeal from a denial by the trial court of the appellants’ plea of privilege. The appellants are foreign corporations doing business in the State of Texas. The trial court denied the appellants’ pleas under § 27 of Article 1995, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. (1964).

The sole question presented to this Court is whether or not § 27, Art. 1995, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution by *809permitting venue against foreign corporations to be held in a county other than their residences solely upon proof that the corporate…