Smith v. Hartt & Cole

The appeal is from a judgment sustaining a plea of privilege of appellees to be ■ sued in Dallas county, the county of their residence. The nature of appellant’s suit, as disclosed by his petition and testimony upon the trial of the plea of privilege, was an action for debt alleged to be due him by appellees as the reasonable value of services rendered by him to appellees as an attorney. There was no written contract concerning the employment of appellant, nor was the amount of the services agreed upon. Ap-pellees drilled a well in search for oil and gas in Jones county, in what is known as…