McMullen v. Burton Auto Spring Corp.

LOONEY, Justice.

This appeal is from an order sustaining a plea of privilege. The parties will be referred to as in the court below. J. L. Mc-Mullen, a resident citizen of Dallas County, Texas, sued Burton Auto Spring Corporation, a foreign corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Illinois, seeking damages for the breach of a personal service contract.

The defendant filed a plea of privilege to be sued in Tarrant County, alleging that its office and place of business, also the residence of its officers and -agents, at all times involved here, were in the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant…