Reagan County Purchasing Co. v. State

BLAIR, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling the pleas of privilege of appellants, Reagan County Purchasing Company, Inc:, and Continental Oil Company, to be sued in Tarrant county. The pleas were in statutory form, and each appellant was shown to be a Delaware corporation with a permit to do business in Texas, and with its principal office in Fort Worth, Tarrant county ; and neither appellant had an agent in Travis county when the state filed its suit there. The state controverted the general venue thus fixed in Tarrant county by the pleas of privilege, and sustained venue in…