Winborn v. Mayo

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a plea of privilege. Plaintiffs, Doris Newmayer Winborn and others, filed suit in the District Court of Webb County, Texas, for damages alleged to have been sustained by the wrongful death of Arthur Coyle Winborn, who was killed in Webb County on November 12, 1966, in a hunting accident. Defendant, Nathan Elliot Mayo, a resident of San Patricio County, Texas, filed a plea of privilege to be sued in the county of his residence. Plaintiffs duly controverted such plea of privilege, alleging that venue was proper in Webb County under…