United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. of Baltimore v. Lowry

The decision of the majority of this court rests upon the assumption that the Constitution of this state conferred original jurisdiction upon the district court of Brown county to try this cause, and that the venue in Coke county, as fixed by the act under which this proceeding was brought, was a mere personal privilege, which appellee might waive. I cannot accede to either of these propositions.

The clause of the Constitution relied upon is that which declares that district courts shall have original jurisdiction “of all suits, complaints or pleas whatever, without regard to any distinction…