LANDLORD-TENANT
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Wichita County, Texas v. Hart (1996)
Most recently applied in in Re: Freestone Underground Storage, Inc., Ray Funderburk, and Nancy Funderburk (March 2014)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 138, Sec. 2, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as provided by another statute prescribing mandatory venue, a suit between a landlord and a tenant arising under a lease shall be brought in the county in which all or a part of the real property is located.
(b) In this section, "lease" means any written or oral agreement between a landlord and a tenant that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, or other provisions relating to the use and occupancy of the real property that is the subject of the agreement.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.