First State Bank of Childress v. Fields

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

In this venue case, the plaintiff cotton farmers seek to sustain venue in Cottle County, Texas against a bank and four cotton companies, non-resident defendants, who each had filed its plea of privilege to be sued in the county of its residence. Each of these defendants has brought its appeal from the order of the trial court overruling the respective pleas of privilege. Reversed and rendered.

Welton Fields and various other cotton farmers in the Cottle County, Texas area, plaintiffs-appellees, sold their cotton to Vaughn B. Nowlin, dba Vaughn B. Nowlin Cotton Company, in…