Union Bus Lines v. Byrd

This is an appeal from an order sustaining appellees' pleas of privilege. A trailer-truck, owned by Kimbriel Produce Company, Inc., and a bus operated by Joe Amberson, doing business as Union Bus Lines, collided on U.S. highway No. 281, near the town of Three Rivers, Texas. Two of the passengers on the bus, M. S. Byrd and Forrest Dugat, brought separate suits against Amberson (Union Bus Lines) in Cameron County, Texas. Venue of these actions was properly laid in Cameron County under Exception 24 of Article 1995, Vernon's Ann.Civ.Stats.

In both of these suits Amberson filed actions over and…