Mahler v. J. R. Watkins Co.

BOND, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order, overruling appellants’ pleas of privilege to be sued in the county of their residence. Plaintiff’s petition and evidence shows that the defendant, Vernon G. Belote, resides in Hutchinson County, Texas; appellants, Simms and Mahler, in Carson County, Texas; that the defendant, Vernon G. Belote, is indebted to appellee in the sum of $886.64, and that appellants executed a written agreement involving them, jointly and severally, as sureties or guarantors of Belote’s said indebtedness. Belote was a formal party to the suit, but,…