Teague Brick & Tile Company v. Snowden

BARRÓN, Justice.

This is a plea of privilege case.

B. B. Snowden, individually and doing business as S & S Building Materials Company, plaintiff, sued Teague Brick & Tile Company, defendant, seeking damages for breach of an alleged oral contract, and seeking damages for harassment, slander and libel, together with punitive damages. Suit was filed in the District Court of Galveston County, Texas.

Teague Brick & Tile Company filed plea of privilege, in which it admitted that it was a private corporation, and such plea was controverted by the plaintiff. After a hearing, the trial court overruled…