Home Insurance Co. v. Dickey

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

Venue in this suit to set aside a compromise settlement of a workmen’s compensation claim was sustained in Hale County pursuant to Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1995, subd. 7 (fraud). In its appeal from the trial court’s judgment overruling its plea of privilege, the defendant, Home Insurance Company, the insurer, contends that the plaintiff, Jack H. Dickey, did not establish venue under subdivision 7 because of his failure to prove that any false representations were made to him and that any such representations were attributable to the defendant. We find that under the…