Court Opinion

ID: 9830193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:57:57.27422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:15.442901
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Since delivering the original opinion in this case the Supreme Court in answering certified questions in the cases of A. H. Belo Corp. v. Thos. L. Blanton, Tex. Sup., 129 S.W.2d 619, and Thomas L. Blanton v. Clyde L. Garrett, Tex. Sup., 129 S.W.2d 623, opinions delivered June 21, 1939, but not yet' reported in State Reports, has held in effect that in suits for defamation of character, in order to retain venue in (he county of the residence of the plaintiff it is necessary, under the provisions of Art. 2007 and § 29, Art. 1995, to both plead and prove the essential elements of the defamation.
We have purposely delayed acting upon this motion until the Supreme Court answered the questions certified to them by the Eastland Court of Civil Appeals in the above two cases.
The motion for a rehearing has been carefully considered and will be in all things overruled.