Ruby v. Martin

This writ of error was prosecuted by plaintiffs in error from a judgment by default rendered against them at a special term of the district court of the Thirty-Seventh district, on August 8, 1930. The judgment was rendered against M. E. Ruby and W. T. Cage for $15,000.

This ease was filed in a district court of Travis county and was transferred on a plea of privilege to the Thirty-Seventh district court of Bekar county, and filed therein on May 31, 1930, at a regular term then in session. No answer had been filed in the cause when it was transferred, and none had been filed when the judgment…