Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank of Dallas v. Sutherland

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order of the district court of Duval county, overruling a plea in abatement and denying a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order previously granted, which plea and motion were based on the pendency of a suit in the district court of Dallas county.

The correctness of the order depends upon whether the district court of Duval county had first acquired jurisdiction of the subject-matter of a suit subsequently filed in one of the district courts of Dallas county. The solution of the question requires that we recount the history of the litigation.

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