Pace v. Potter
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals, Second District. This was an appeal from the District Court of Cooke County. Tried below before Hon. D. E. Barrett. The statement of the case and the findings of the Court of Civil Appeals are given in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
This suit was instituted by the defendant in error in the District Court of Cooke County, to recover of plaintiff in error damages for the use of nine sections of land for the period of fifteen months, alleged to be of the value of 15 cents per acre per annum.
Plaintiff’s petition charged that the defendant was a resident of the State of Virginia, and service of notice of the suit was made upon him in that State.
The defendant first appeared only by a plea objecting to the jurisdiction of the court, and moved to quash the citation and service thereof.
The court sustained…
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