Wilson v. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

This cause requires that we determine whether a trial court commits reversible error by transferring a civil lawsuit filed in a Texas county that qualifies as a proper venue to another county that originally might have been considered a proper venue. Lydia Wilson, Curtis Wilson, Angela Wilson Kramm, and Lila Wilson (collectively “Plaintiffs”) sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (“Department”) in district court in Travis County, alleging that the Department’s negligence caused the drowning deaths of Wilford and Wilton Wilson. The Department filed a motion to transfer venue of…