Moorhouse v. King County Land & Cattle Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, King County; Jo. A. P. Dickson, Judge. Action by P. E. Moorhouse against the King County Land & Cattle Company and others. Prom a judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, King County; Jo. A. P. Dickson, Judge. Action by P. E. Moorhouse against the King County Land & Cattle Company and others. Prom a judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals. The appellant brought this suit against King County Land & Cattle Company, a domestic corporation, and W. A. Nash, M. O. Spikes, and W. E. Pickard, in the district court of King county, on March 14, 1910, for specific performance of a contract to convey land and cattle, and for usurious interest, or, in the alternative, for a cancellation of the transfer of his stock in said corporation on the…
1Opinion of the CourtNeill, J.
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It must be assumed in favor of the ruling of the court that each of appellees Nash, Spikes, and Pickard was not at the institution of this suit, nor at the time of service of process on him, nor at the time of filing his plea of privilege, a resident of King county, but that each was a resident at the time his plea was filed of Kaufman county, Tex. Indeed, these facts are not controverted, but are virtually admitted by appellant in his pleadings and brief.
[2] No ground is shown which would defeat their plea of privilege, unless it be that plaintiff’s…
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