Cornell v. Cramer

PELPHREY, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee for himself and as trustee for Mrs. Dorothy Schneider against Jos. W. Bailey, Jr., to require Bailey to deliver to him a certain mineral deed, which was held by Bailey under an escrow agreement between appellant and appel-lee. In an amended petition appellee made appellant a party defendant, alleging that he was asserting some kind of claim to the mineral deed. Appellant thereupon filed his plea of privilege to be sued in Tom Green county, the county of his residence, and, upon said plea being overruled, duly perfected an appeal to the…