210 S.W.2d 605 | Tex. App. | 1948
This is an appeal from an order overruling appellant’s plea of privilege timely filed to be sued in the county of his residence ; the venue issue involving the application of Subdv. 4, Art. 1995, R.C.S.
Appellee instituted this suit in Dallas County against Brown & Ross, Inc., resi
The liabilities due and owing by the defunct insurance exchange being the result of a common undertaking and policy contracts, each of said subscribers bound himself or itself to pay such liabilities, pro rata or proportionate part thereof. In the case of Richardson v. Kelly, supra, the Supreme Court held that the judgment in the class suit, supra, was neither void nor voidable; hence it only remained for the receiver, as here, in order to recover in his action against the subscribers, to show that they were subscribers during the insolvency period and the amount of the annual premium paid by them during that period. Thus applying the fundamental rule announced in Stockyards National Bank v. Maples, 127 Tex. 633, 95 S.W.2d 1300, adopted by the Supreme Court, that to maintain suit against a nonresident defendant under subdv. 4, Art. 1995, the plaintiff must establish his right to maintain venue where laid by alleging a cause of action against the resident defendant so intimately connected with the cause of action alleged against the nonresident defendant, and must offer proof thereon that such is the nature of the suit; and by independent evidence prove that the defendant alleged to reside in the county where the suit is pending, does, in fact, reside in such county; and the further fact, that plaintiff has a cause of action as alleged against the resident defendant. Under such rule, it will be observed that plaintiff was not required to establish his cause of action against the nonresident defendant, and where plaintiff’s pleadings disclose that the cause of action against the resident defendant is so intimately connected with the cause of action alleged against the nonresident defendant, the two may be joined under the rule intended to avoid a multiplicity of suits.
The evidence in this case conclusively shows that Brown & Ross, Inc., maintained its domicile in Dallas County at the time the suit was filed; that it was a subscriber at the insurance exchange; that its premiums during the insolvency were $467.58; that under the terms of the’class
The judgment of the court below is affirmed