Pearce v. Wallis, Landes & Co.
| Decision Date | 22 December 1909 |
| Parties | PEARCE v. WALLIS, LANDES & CO. et al. |
| Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Coleman County Court; F. M. Bowen, Judge.
Action by J. R. Pearce against Wallis, Landes & Co. and others. Defendants had judgment, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
Snodgrass & Dibrell, for appellant. E. A. Hawkins and Woodward & Baker, for appellees.
J. R. Pearce brought this suit against the firm of Wallis, Landes & Co., composed of J. E. Wallis, N. A. Landes, and C. L. Wallis, and also against G. William Baker. The plaintiff alleged in his petition that the defendant Baker resided in Coleman county, in which the suit was brought, and that the other defendants resided in Galveston county. It was alleged in the petition that the defendant Baker, having a just claim against the other defendants for $281.98, had assigned the same to the plaintiff and guaranteed the payment thereof. Baker filed an answer admitting the facts alleged by the plaintiff. The other defendants filed pleas of privilege to be sued in another county, which pleas were in conformity with the statute enacted by the Thirtieth Legislature (Acts 30th Leg. p. 248, c. 133) in reference to such pleas, and directing that, when such a plea is sustained, the case shall not be dismissed, but shall be transferred to the proper county. After filing the pleas of privilege referred to, and without waiving the same, the defendants answered to the merits, but nowhere in any plea did they charge that the alleged assignment of the claim from the defendant Baker to the plaintiff was simulated, fictitious, or fraudulent, for the purpose of conferring jurisdiction upon the county court of Lampasas county. Notwithstanding the failure of the defendants to present any such issue by pleadings, the court heard evidence and submitted to the jury the question of fraudulent or simulated assignment of the claim by the defendant Baker to the plaintiff, and the jury found in favor of the other defendants upon that question, and thereupon the court rendered judgment sustaining the plea of privilege and changing the venue. The pleas of privilege did not present any such issue as that referred to; and, as it was not presented by any other plea, the trial court erred in submitting it to the jury.
We also sustain appellant's contention urged in criticism of the court's charge, to the effect that the question of consideration for the assignment of...
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