Hyundai Motor Co. v. Alvarado

(Assigned), dissenting.

I respectfully disagree with my colleague’s treatment of Point of Error Number One, and accordingly I dissent.

The majority opinion believes the real issue to be whether “tag-along” venue is a legitimate method of acquiring venue, citing from Justice Michol O’ConnoR, et al., O’ConnoR’s Texas Rules: Civil Trials 95 (1997):

This (the venue statute) permits a plaintiff to establish venue against a target defendant by first filing suit against a friendly defendant, who then will file a third party action against the target defendant,

and concluding that Polaris Inv. Management…