This is an accelerated appeal under section 15.003 of the Texas Civñ Practice and Remedies Code from the trial court’s order denying Dayco Products, Inc’s “Motion for Reconsideration of Joinder of Parties” and “Mоtions for Transfer of Venue and Severance.” Fifty-three named plaintiffs 1 filed suit to recover damages from Dayco Products, Inc., Dayco Industrial Products, Inc., and Omega Products, Inc. 2 under theories of negligence, strict liability and breach of warranty. The claims, as pleaded, arose out of the negligent design, manufacturer and marketing of washing machine hoses by Dayco. As to the first thirty chronologically named plaintiffs, we will dismiss the interlocutory appеal for lack of jurisdiction and will reverse the trial court’s order denying severance as to twenty-two of the remaining twenty-three plaintiffs and remand to the trial court for further proceedings.
Background
On May 26, 1998, seventeen plaintiffs filed suit against Dayco who responded with an answer subject to a motion to transfer venue and to sever on July 14, 1998. In a second amended original petition dated August 7, 1998, thirteen newly named plaintiffs were added to the suit against Dayco. On August 26, 1998, Day-сo responded with a first amended motion for severance based on Rule 41 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure which states in part that “actions which have been improperly joined may be severed.” Tex.R. Civ. P. 41.
The trial cоurt conducted a hearing on both the motion to transfer venue and for severance on September 2, 1998. Dayco specifically stated to the court that its motion to transfer venue only applied to *82 the first seventеen of the named plaintiffs while its first amended motion for severance addressed all thirty of the “current plaintiffs.” Dayco further explained to the trial court during this hearing that the thirty plaintiffs were “improperly trying to join to unite and cоnquer.” At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court signed the following order:
ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO TRANSFER VENUE AND MOTION TO SEVER
On September 2, 1998 came on to be heard the motion to transfer venue and motion to sever filed by Defendant Day-co Products, Inc. The parties appeared by and through their respective counsel of record, the Court heard argument and reviewed the evidence and the motions in question, and the Court has concluded that the motion to transfer venue and the motion to sever should be denied.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that the motion to transfer venue filed by Dayco Product Inc. is DENIED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the motion to sever is DENIED.
SIGNED this _2_ day of Sept., 1998.
Following the September 2, 1998, order, new plaintiffs continued to be added to the suit. On December 29, 1998, Dayco filed a motion for reconsideration of the September 2, 1998 order. It also filed a motion to transfer venue to newly added plaintiffs which included an objection to the joinder of all of the plaintiffs to the suit. Twice during early 1999, new plaintiffs were added to the suit bringing the ultimate total to fifty-three. Each time new plaintiffs were added, Dayco responded with a motion to transfer venue and an objection to joinder of the new plaintiffs. On August 2, 1999, after a hearing, the trial court entered an order denying Dayco’s reconsideration motion and its three motions objecting to joinder of the newly added plaintiffs. Thereafter, interlocutory appeal was filed on August 12, 1999, pursuant to section 15.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code which provides:
§ 15.003. Multiple Plaintiffs and Intervening Plaintiffs
(a) In a suit where more than one plaintiff is joined each plaintiff must, independently of any other plaintiff, establish proper venue. Any person who is unable to establish proper venue may not join or maintain venue for the suit as a plaintiff unless the person, independently of any other plaintiff, establishes that:
(1) joinder or intervention in the suit is proper under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure;
(2) maintaining venue in the county of suit does not unfairly prejudice another party to the suit;
(3) there is an essential need to have the person’s claim tried in the county in which the suit is pending; and
(4) the county in which the suit is pending is a fair and convenient venue for the ■ person seeking to join in or maintain venue for the suit and the persons against whom the suit is brought.
(b) A person may not intervene or join in a pending suit as a plaintiff unless the person, independently of any other plaintiff:
(1) establishes proрer venue for the county in which the suit is pending; or
(2) satisfies the requirements of Subdivisions (1) through (4) of Subsection (a).
(c) Any person seeking intervention or joinder, who is unable to independently establish proper venue, or a party opposing intervention or joinder of such a person may contest the decision of the trial court allowing or denying intervention or joinder by taking an interlocutory appeal to the *83 court of appeals district in which the triаl court is located under the procedures established for interlocutory appeals. The appeal must be perfected not later than the 20th day after the date the trial court signs the order denying or allowing the intervention or joinder. The court of appeals shall:
(1) determine whether the joinder or intervention is proper based on an independent determination from the record and not under either an abuse of discretiоn or substantial evidence standard; and
(2) render its decision not later than the 120th day after the date the appeal is perfected by the complaining party.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. § 15.003 (Vernon Supp.1999).
Motion FOR ReconsideRation •
We will first address Dayco’s second issue on appeal. In its second issue, Dayco contends the trial court erred in denying its motion for reconsideration of the September 2, 1998 order. Ordinarily, appeal does not immediately lie from a trial court order regarding venue.
Surgitek, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. v. Abel,
An interlocutory аppeal under section 15.003(c) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code with regard to a join-der issue under Rule 41 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure is considered an accelerated appeal. Tex.R.Aрp. P. 28.1;
see Iron Mountain v. Easley Trailer Mfg.,
Although Dayco filed a motion for reconsideration almost three months after the trial court enterеd its September 2 order denying severance as to the thirty “current plaintiffs” and although a motion for reconsideration is equivalent to a motion for new trial,
IPM Products Corp. v. Motor Parkway Realty,
Joinder as to Post-September 2, 1998 Plaintiffs
In its first issue, Dаyco argues that the trial court erred in refusing to sever all of the plaintiffs from the Gregg County suit whose cause of action did not arise in Gregg County. As we have shown above, we do not have jurisdiction in this accelerated or intеrlocutory appeal as to the thirty plaintiffs who were joined in the suit prior to the September 2, 1998, order shown above. We therefore consider Day-co’s issue one only as it relates to the remaining twenty-three plaintiffs who joined this suit following September 2, 1998.
Before the trial court reaches the joinder elements under sections 15.003(a), it first has to determine whether a plaintiff
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can independently establish proper venue.
Surgitek, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co.,
Since twenty-two of the twenty-three plaintiffs failed to establish proper venue in Gregg County, we now must look to determine whether they established all four of the elements described in section 15.003(a) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
Surgitek, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co.,
In reviewing the appellate record, we have found no specific reason or need shown" by the plaintiffs as to why suit was brought in Gregg County. One affidavit in the record states that three of the seventeen original plaintiffs lived in Gregg County. Perhaps that suggests that the suit was brought in Gregg County because more of the original plaintiffs live there than anywhere else in the state. However, of the seventeen original plaintiffs, two each lived in Collin, Dallas, Ectоr and El Paso counties. Moreover, none of the plaintiffs whose cause of action arose outside of Gregg County ever demonstrated an essential need for their claim to be tried in Gregg County. Because we conclude •that the plaintiffs failed to establish this joinder element, we need not consider whether they established the other three. Id.
Accordingly, we dismiss this interlocutory appeal of the joinder issue as to the thirty September 2, 1998, plaintiffs, and reverse the trial court’s order on the join-der issue as to the remaining twenty-two plaintiffs living outside of Gregg County and joined to this suit after September 2, 1998, and we remand these claims to the trial court for further orders consistent with this opinion.
Notes
. The claims of the fifty-three рlaintiffs, who are the Appellees before the court, have been subrogated by their two insurance carriers, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and State Farm Lloyds, who have paid the claims less the respective policies' deductibles.
. Only Dayco Products, Inc. perfected this appeal.
. Jerry Stone, one of the twenty-three post-September 2, 1998 plaintiffs, did have his cause of action arise in Gregg County.