207 S.W.2d 182 | Tex. App. | 1947
This is an appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege. Childress & Marshall filed suit against J. C. Pugh in the justice court, Precinct No. 1, Upshur County, Texas, for the sum of $152 based upon an alleged conversion by the defendant of certain property of the plaintiffs. The defendant filed his plea of privilege to be sued in Harrison County, the place of' his residence. The plea was overruled and.
Where an appeal is taken from an order sustaining a plea of privilege, such appeal shall suspend a trial of the cause ■pending the final determination of such appeal. Art. 2008, Vernon’s Texas Statutes, 1936; Rule 89, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; Rule 385, par. C, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; Martin v. McKean & McNeal, Tex.Com.App., 257 S.W. 241. However, when the judgment is one overruling the plea of privilege and an appeal is taken, the suit may be tried on the merits irrespective of the appeal. Newlin v. Smith, 136 Tex. 260, 150 S.W.2d 233. It is true that in such a case the plaintiff takes a chance on having to try the case on its merits a second time in the event the plea of privilege should be sustained on the appeal from the order overruling such plea of privilege.
In view of the fact that the plaintiffs proceeded to trial in the justice court of Upshur County and judgment was entered in their favor, from which no appeal was taken, such judgment became final. The questions presented on the appeal pending in this court with reference to the plea of privilege have become moot and it would serve no useful purpose for us to discuss them. Brown County Life Ins. Co. v. Hagins, Tex.Civ.App., 110 S.W.2d 1162; Allen v. Woodward, 111 Tex. 457, 239 S.W. 602, 22 A.L.R. 1253; Motor Securities Corp. v. Jones, Tex.Civ.App., 90 S.W.2d 858; Panhandle Compress & Warehouse Co., v. Badgett, Tex.Civ.App., 80 S.W.2d 466.
Therefore the motion of Childress & Marshall, appellees herein, to dismiss this appeal is granted, and it is so ordered.