Crawford v. Carothers

Citations

• 66 Tex. 199
• 18 S.W. 500
• 1886 Tex. LEXIS 480

Syllabus

<p>1. Practice—Plea of personal privilege—A plea of personal privilege, in answer to a suit upon a written contract, containing no allegation that the defendant’s obligation was not to be performed in the county wherein the suit was brought, is fatally defective. (Authorities cited.) ”</p> <p>2. Same—The petition, in a suit upon a written contract, alleged the defendant to be a resident of the county wherein it was filed. His plea of personal privilege contained no denial of that allegation, but alleged that defendant resided in another county. Held: The plea was bad. Defendant could have been a resident of both counties. (Brown v. Bouldon, 18 Tex., 431.)</p>