National Surety Corporation v. Moore

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a plea of privilege. The parties will be designated as they were in the trial court.

National Surety Corporation, plaintiff, assignee of First National Bank in Dallas, sued defendants M. Keith Cox, Clifton S. Harrison, and James A. Moore.

Moore filed a plea of privilege seeking to have the cause as to him transferred to Harris County, the county of his residence. The Surety Corporation filed a controverting plea, alleging that venue as to Moore properly lies in Dallas County under subdivisions 4 and 9 of Art. 1995, Vernon’s…