Duffy v. Cole Petroleum Co.

Mr. Presiding Judge SHORT

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

The following is the certificate from the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District, presented to the Supreme Court and referred to this Section of the Commission for disposition:

“On original hearing in this cause, now pending here upon an undetermined motion for rehearing, this court held that venue against individual non-residents may not be sustained in a different county, despite their pleas of privilege to be sued in their own county, by the mere general allegation, made…