Texas Supreme Court, 1918

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ayers

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ayers
Texas Supreme Court · Decided November 20, 1918 · Hawkins, Phillips
206 S.W. 817; 109 Tex. 270; 1918 Tex. LEXIS 82 (South Western Reporter)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ayers

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chief Justice PHILLIPS

delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the questions discussed in the opinion this day delivered in the case of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Stevens, the facts in the present case are practically identical. The case in those particulars is accordingly ruled by that decision.

The judgments of the honorable Court of Civil Appeals and the District Court are reversed and the cause is remanded to the District Court with instructions to transfer it to'the District Court of one of the counties named in the defendant’s plea of privilege, as the plaintiff may elect.

Concurring Opinion

Mr. Justice HAWKINS,

concurring.

My views concerning the final clause of the foregoing opinion are expressed in my concurring opinion in a companion case, No. 3080, Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Stevens, this day decided here.

Reversed and remanded with instructions.

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