Jones v. Austin

This suit was brought by M. S. Austin,, in the County Court of Rockwall County, against H. Jones and T. J. Wood, Jr., alleged as composing the firm of H. Jones & Co., and the Rockwall Farmers Alliance, alleged to be a corporation. The basis of the suit was-an account of $242 against H. Jones & Co. in favor of the Rockwall Farmers Alliance, for weighing cotton, which it is alleged had been transferred and guaranteed by the Rockwall Farmers Alliance to the plaintiff, M. S. Austin.

Delivered February 28, 1894.

The defendants Wood and Jones did not reside in the county where the suit was brought,…