Rotan v. Maedgen & Kennon

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellees sued appellant and D. W. ’Mc-Glasson, to recover five-sevenths interest in a note for $3500, alleged to have been converted by appellant and McGlasson. The suit was brought in Bell County, where the plaintiffs and the defendant McGlasson resided. The defendant Rotan resided in McLennan County, and filed a plea in abatement, alleging that he was improperly sued in Bell County.

The plaintiff’s petition charged the two defendants McGlasson and Rotan with conspiring together to cheat and defraud the plaintiffs of their interest in the note, and with appropriating…