Halbert v. Upshaw

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

A. T. Halbert sued T. A. Upshaw, who resides in Jones County, in Stonewall County for an eighth of the minerals in a tract of land in Stonewall County. Upshaw filed a plea of privilege to be sued in Jones County. His plea was sustained. Halbert has appealed.

Halbert contends the court erred in sustaining Upshaw’s plea because this is a suit for the recovery of land situated in Stonewall County which he is entitled to maintain there under exception 14 to Article 1995, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes. It was established that the land is in Stonewall County. The only…