Carro v. Carro
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Vanzandt. Tried below before the Hon. T. J. McCord. The appellant instituted this suit in the district court of Vanzandt county for the partition of certain real and personal property alleged to be owned in common by the intestate of appellant and defendants in this suit.
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Appeal from Vanzandt. Tried below before the Hon. T. J. McCord. The appellant instituted this suit in the district court of Vanzandt county for the partition of certain real and personal property alleged to be owned in common by the intestate of appellant and defendants in this suit. Appellant alleged in her petition that some of the defendants in this suit resided in Vanzandt county, and that a portion of the land, for the partition of which this suit was instituted, was situated in Vanzandt county. Defendants pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that the property in…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
Article 1198, Revised Statutes, provides that “ no person who is an inhabitant of this state shall be sued out of the county in which he has his domicile,” except in certain cases, which are set forth in the act itself. Some of these exceptions are peremptory, requiring positively that suit must or shall be commenced in a particular county, without reference to whether or not it is the domicile of the defendant. All of such exceptions are founded upon special reasons which make it important that the general rule on the subject of venue should be varied as to the cases…
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