Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co. v. Alexander

FANNING, Justice.

Mrs. Mae Alexander, widow of E. R. Alexander, deceased (and other parties who were later dismissed), sued Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company in the District Court of Harrison County, Texas. Defendant, a foreign corporation, filed its plea of privilege seeking the transfer of the cause to McLennan County, Texas, the county of its Texas residence, which plea was controverted by plaintiff relying on venue under exceptions 27 and 28 to Art. 1995, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. The trial court, without the intervention of a jury, heard and overruled defendant’s plea of…