Cornell v. Alderdice

SPEER, Justice.

This controversy grows out of a construction of articles 1995 and 2007, Rev. Civil Statutes, pertaining to venue in civil cases, more especially the sufficiency of the proof required of a plaintiff on a hearing of a plea of privilege filed by defendant which was timely controverted by plaintiff. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendants as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff Vivian L. Alderdice instituted this suit against James Cornell and L. J. Wardlaw, as defendants, in the Forty-Eighth district court of Tarrant county, alleging that the former lived…