284 S.W. 606 | Tex. App. | 1925
Appellant brought this suit in the county court of Haskell county to enjoin the execution of a judgment recovered against him in the county court at law of Dallas county, on the ground that said judgment was void, for the reason that the notes sued upon, for which judgment was rendered, were void because procured by fraud. The appellee, B. F. Avery Sons Plow Company, in due time filed its plea of privilege to be sued in the county of its residence, Dallas county, Tex., and upon hearing of said plea the court sustained same, and ordered the case transferred to the county court at law of Dallas county, Tex., from which order the appellant has prosecuted this appeal.
By assignments of errors the appellant contends that this suit comes directly under subdivision No. 7 of article 1830 of the Revised Statutes, as well as under subdivisions Nos. 24 and 28, article 1830, of the Revised Statutes. The proposition advanced by appellant that in all cases of fraud that the suit shall be tried in the county where the fraud is committed is correct, and, under proper statement of facts, would be applied.
In this suit the appellant was sued upon these notes in the county court at law, Dallas county, Tex., and judgment by default was rendered against appellant for the amount of the notes, interest, and attorney's fees, and said judgment was permitted to become final. This suit, then, is an attack upon that judgment, and appellant is attempting to avail himself of defenses which he could and should have asserted in the suit in Dallas county, and, therefore, comes within section 17, article 1830, of the Revised Statutes of 1911, now article 1995, section 17, Revised Statutes of 1925, and by article
If appellant had been a stranger to the Dallas county judgment, then the matter would present a different situation, and some of the cases cited would be applicable, but, appellant being a party to the Dallas county judgment, an injunction granted to him to stay proceedings or execution on said judgment is returnable under article 4653, and must be tried in the court where the judgment was rendered. Carey v. Looney et al.,
The appellant insists that the case of Carey v. Looney,
The appellant also contends error in the court failing to file conclusions of law and fact. This court has recently held that, where a party makes timely request for such findings, and the court fails or refuses to file same, and bill of exception is reserved, and there is found no statement of facts in the record, for such failure the cause will be reversed. W. T. Rawleigh Co. v. E. A. Sayre,
In this case the pleadings of appellant admit of no other conclusion but that the suit comes within the statutes requiring same to be brought in Dallas county, and, the plea of privilege having been invoked, there remained nothing else for the court to do but sustain same.
Appellant reserved no bill of exception, although notice of his request was entered and the suggestion made to the court.
In the absence of a bill of exception, the *608
appellate court will not reverse the judgment of a trial court on account of failure to file conclusions of law in fact. Trippett v. Nash McLarty Motor Co. (Tex.Civ.App.)
It is the judgment of this court that the assignment of errors be overruled and that this case be affirmed.