Resendez v. Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc.

REYNOLDS, Justice.

Presented is the question of proper venue for the trial of this wrongful death action. Lupe Resendez, the surviving widow of Enrique Resendez, deceased, filed this suit in Hockley County, seeking damages for herself and in behalf of others from Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc., for its alleged negligence committed in Hockley County proximately causing the death of the deceased. Controverting defendant’s plea of privilege for removal of the suit to its domiciliary County of Lynn, plaintiff asserted venue was properly laid in Hockley County under subdivision 9a of the…