Brant v. Lane

We think this ease distinguishable from the eases of Cardwell v. Masterson, 27 Tex. Civ. App. 591, 66 S. W. 1121, and Cobb v. Barber, 92 Tex. 309, 47 S. W. 963, so earnestly urged upon us in the motion for rehearing. The case first named was a suit by a landlord against a tenant to foreclose the landlord’s lien, and against certain parties claiming as mortgagees under a mortgage from the tenant, for conversion of the property subject to the lien, and it was held that the suit against the parties converting the property, residing elsewhere, could be maintained in the county of the tenant’s…