B. F. Avery & Sons Plow Co. v. Mayfield

SPEER, Justice.

This appeal involves a novel question relating to venue and the plea of privilege.

Appellant, B. F. Avery & Sons Plow Company, filed a petition against appellee, Tom H. Mayfield, Jr., in the Fourteenth district court of Dallas county, Tex., asking for a bill of discovery.

As grounds for the relief sought, allegations were made that on January 29, 1936, in the same court, under the same styled and numbered cause, appellant had recovered a judgment against appellee for $1,061.52; that there was no appeal from that judgment; that appellant had caused execution to be issued on the…