Bates v. Stinnett

SPEER, Justice.

This appeal involves the plea of privilege and venue. The parties will be designated as they were in the trial court.

Plaintiffs A. B. Bates and his wife sued Beaumont Stinnett, a resident of Potter County, Texas, in the district court of Kaufman County, for damages growing out of injuries sustained by the wife in an automobile collision between a car in which she was riding and the one owned and driven by the defendant. The accident took place in Kaufman County, Texas.

Defendant timely filed his plea of privilege to be sued, if at all, in Potter County, the place of his…