Middlebrook & Brother v. David Bradley Manufacturing Co.

26 S.W. 935, 86 Tex. 706, 1894 Tex. LEXIS 450

• Court: Texas Supreme Court
• Decided: May 21, 1894
• Docket: No. 156.
• Status: Published

Opinion

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Appellee brought action against appellants on three promissory notes, executed by the latter, one for $67.50,. another for $518.29, and the other for $160. First two made payable in county in which action was brought, but the other named no place of payment.

The larger note had on it the following memorandum: “March 8,

1887. Credit by new note, $160.”

Defendants not being residents of the county in which action was-brought, pleaded their privilege to be sued in the county of their residence on the note for $160, and to the jurisdiction of the court as to the others, on the ground that after deducting the credit endorsed on the larger note less than $500 was claimed.

The court sustained defendants’ plea of privilege to be sued in the county of their residence, but retained jurisdiction as to the other notes, and rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for principal and interest due them, less a credit of $160, in accordance with the credit endorsed thereon

We are of opinion thaf the court did not err in refusing to dismiss the cause on plea to jurisdiction, but that it did err in sustaining defendants’ plea of privilege to be sued in the county of their residence on the note for $160.

Two of the notes being payable in the county in which action was-brought, the suit was properly brought there, and in order to avoid multiplicity of suits it was proper to embrace in the same action the other note. Clegg v. Varnell, 18 Texas, 304; Chevalier v. Rusk, Dallam, 613.