Court Opinion

ID: 9828877
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:49:04.543871+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:01:45.613127
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On Appellee’s Motion for Rehearing.
The right of a defendant to require a plaintiff to try the venue issue prior to the trial of the merits must be viewed from the defendant’s standpoint before witnesses have been summoned to testify, otherwise the ruling by our Supreme Court in Newlin v. Smith, 136 Tex. 260, 150 S.W.2d 233, would prove chimerical and practically never be enforced. We believe however that the ruling in Newlin v. Smith, supra, does not require that the judgment of the lower court, insofar as it decided that venue was properly laid, be set aside. Under Rule 434, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, we are justified in affirming so much of the judgment as disposed of the venue question. The motion for rehearing is therefore in part granted and in part refused, and our former judgment is accordingly reformed so that only that part of the judgment determining the question of venue is affirmed, and the judgment so far as the merits of the cause is concerned is reversed and the cause in that respect remanded for a new trial.
Motion for rehearing in part granted, former judgment set aside and cause affirmed in .part and in part reversed and remanded.