Brown v. Calhoun

Appeal from an interlocutory order overruling a plea of privilege seeking to change the venue from Lee county to Nueces county, where appellant resided.

The suit was for damages for the death of plaintiff’s (appellee’s) son, which was caused by a collision Between a car in which the son was riding and a motortruck loaded with cotton which had been parked on the public highway in Lee county. Appellee claims that the truck was in charge of appellant’s employee at tile time of the accident. It appears that there were two trucks hauling cotton to Houston. The one in front had been stopped for some…