Owens v. Sherrard Motor Company, Inc.

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is a venue suit. This action was instituted by the appellee, Sherrard Motor Company, Inc., in Grayson County, Texas, against the appellant, W. E. Owens, to recover judgment for damages based upon a liquidated debt resulting from the appellant’s stopping payment on a check given to the appellee for a pickup truck purchased by the appellant from the appellee. The appellant duly filed a plea of privilege to be sued in Fannin County, the county of the appellant’s domicile, and the appellee duly filed its controverting plea of privilege claiming that venue lay in…