Abilene Storage Co. v. Eugene Fruit Growers' Ass'n

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling plea of privilege filed by W. A. Johnson, doing business under the assumed name of Abilene Storage Company. The Eugene Fruit Growers’ Association of Eugene, Oregon, instituted the main suit, alleging that it shipped 700 cases of beans to the Piggly Wiggly stores of Abilene. That 350 of the cases were later returned to it, but the other 350 cases were converted by the defendant under circumstances amounting to a trespass in Taylor County within the meaning of Exception *5129 to the general venue statute, Art. 1995, R.S.1925.

The…