First National Bank of Yorktown v. Pickett

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a venue case. Plaintiffs, W. M. Pickett and Royce B. Springfield, filed suit in DeWitt County against ten defendants: First National Bank of Yorktown; the bank’s president, M. W. Haun; the bank’s former president, Lou Gips; Robert B. Ey-horn; Harold N. Lane; and the five appellants in this cause, Paul Sharkey, A. S. Cutchin, Charles McCarver, Michael Walters and Dwight Nichols. Appellants Shar-key, Cutchin, McCarver and Walters each filed a plea of privilege to be sued in the county of their residence, Harris County. Appellant Nichols filed a plea of…