Case ID: sw_239/html/0282-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAMILTON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McLENDON v. ARMSTRONG.
    (No. 8621.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Dallas.
    Feb. 25, 1922.
    Rehearing Denied April 1, 1922.)
    Pleading <&wkey;III — Defendant, whose evidence supports controverted plea of privilege, entitled to order transferring cause.
    Where defendant’s evidence on controverted plea of privilege supported the plea, the only proper order for court was to sustain plea and transfer the cause.
    Appeal from Rockwall County Court; J. K. Wells, Judge.
    Action by F. J. McLendon against S. Armstrong. From judgment sustaining plea of privilege, plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    H. M. Wade, of Rockwall, and Lee R. Stroud, of Dallas, for appellant.
    K. R. Craig and W. L. Mathis, both of Dallas, for appellee.
   HAMILTON, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a plea of privilege and ordering the cause transferred from the county court of Rockwall county to the county court of Dallas county.

The issue was properly joined upon the plea of privilege by the pleadings, and the evidence conclusively establishes the right thereby interposed, and without contradiction sustains the judgment of the court.

The appellee having discharged the duty imposed by law to support the controverted plea by evidence, the court did not err in rendering judgment sustaining it and ordering the case transferred.

While appellant has attempted to invoke the judgment of the court in this case upon various matters presented in his brief, yet the only question under the record which we are properly called upon to determine is whether or not the judgment sustaining the plea of privilege is a correct one. Since, as above stated, it is sustained by all the evidence, it was a proper order. No other would have been correct, and it is accordingly affirmed.

Affirmed.