Commercial Union Life Ins. Co. v. Moore

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling the plea of privilege of Commercial Union Life Insurance Company, the defendant below.

The action is one for damages brought by appellee, Asa H. Moore, for alleged slanderous statements made by one George C. Riha, said to be the agent of appellant.

Appellee relied upon exception 29 of Article 1995, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes. It was therefore necessary to establish as a venue fact that a cause of action for slander accrued. A. H. Belo Corporation v. Blanton, 133 Tex. 391, 129 S.W.2d 619. It was also necessary for appellee to…