Kinder & Keach v. Adams Nat. Bank of Devine

SMITH, Chief Justice.

Kinder & Keach, describing themselves as “Trustees” and a “firm or partnership” residing in the State of Ohio, brought this action in a Bexar County Court against Adams National Bank of Devine, Texas, in Medina County, to recover the sum of $240, alleged to be the amount of dividends earned by twenty shares of stock in said bank and owned by the plaintiffs as trustees of an undisclosed principal.

The bank timely filed its plea of privilege to be sued in the county of its admitted domicile, to-wit: Medina. Upon a hearing the trial judge sustained the plea and ordered the…