Fuqua v. Shaw

Mr. Presiding Judge HARVEY

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

The State Banking Commissioner brought this suit in the District Court of Palo Pinto County, against Mrs. Mary N. Brown, a resident of that county, and W. H. Fuqua, a resident of Potter County, to recover an assessment of $1,000.00 levied by Banking Commissioner against the owner of ten certain shares of stock in the defunct Lockney State Bank of Lockney, Texas. Fuqua duly filed a plea of privilege to be sued in the county of his residence; which plea was properly contested and, upon hearing, was…