Southwest General Electric Co. v. Nunn Electric Co.

The Southwest General Electric Company, as assignee of the General Electric Company, sued the Nunn Electric Company to recover a balance due upon a consignment contract. The trial court sustained an exception and dismissed the petition because it was not shown ■ that' the General Electric Company, a New York corporation, had taken out a permit to do business in Texas at the time it entered into the contract with the defendant company. This contract was exhibited with the petition. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court (263 S. W. 954), and the writ of error was…