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IN RE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

Nos. 98-0841, 98-1131, 98-0842, 98-0843.

998 S.W.2d 212 (1999)

In re MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, d/b/a Union Pacific Railroad Company, Relator (Two Cases). In re Southern Pacific Transportation Company & Missouri Pacific Railroad Company d/b/a Union Pacific Railroad Company, Relators. In re Union Pacific Railroad Company, Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided July 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Karinne McCullough, Deborah A. Newman, Laura S. Favaloro, John L. Schouest, Doris A. Beutel, Houston, for Relator.

Gilbert T. Adams, Jr., Beaumont, Daryl L. Moore, Thomas Lee Ewing, Houston, Michael K. Nowak, Belleville, IL, E. Lauren Melton, Fort Worth, for Respondent.

Justice GONZALES delivered the opinion for a unanimous court.

These consolidated mandamus proceedings concern the mandatory venue statute1 for suits brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA).2 In each case the key issue is whether the plaintiff in the underlying lawsuit sued the corporate defendant in a county where it maintains "a principal office...

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