Court Opinion

ID: 9830066
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:51:03.168634+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:12.009861
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*575On Motion for Rehearing.
It will be noted that onr original opinion was written upon the theory that the original proposition or offer was made by appellee at Comanche to Texas Supply Company, Beaumont, Tex.; and that the acceptance therefore was in Beaumont; that therefore the contract was made there. Appellee for the first time upon motion for rehearing calls our attention to the fact that this first offer was not accepted by appellant, but was refused, and that thereupon the appellant offered to buy a different kind of.iron, viz. No. 1 east; that appellee accepted this offer to purchase at Comanche; therefore, the contract was made in Comanche county, and’ not in Jefferson county. The following statement of facts reveal the true record instead of that made in the original opinion;
Dec. 4th, 1918.
“Mr. G. S. Clarke, Box 16, Comanche, Texas —Dear Sir: Replying to your postal in regard to prices on scrap iron, we wish to state that we are not in the market at present for mixed iron, but can use' No. 1 cast, and if you can furnish us with this, advise where the material will be shipped from and we will then quote you. We are,
“Xours very truly,
“H/W Texas Supply Company.”
The following telegram was introduced which was in reply to the letter quoted above, furnishing the ‘information requested in the letter and offer to buy above quoted (S. P. 1), to wit:
“Comanche, Texas, 11:23 A. M. Dec. 7, 1918. Texas Supply Co., Beaumont, Tex. Have car number one cast wire offer fob Comanche. G. S. Clarke 1234 P. M.”
The following telegram was introduced, which is in reply to the telegram from appel-lee to appellant last above quoted (S. E. 1), .to wit:
“Beaumont, Texas. Dee. 7, 1918. G. S.' Clarke, Comanche, Texas. Will wire you Monday on machine cast. Texas Supply Co.”
The following telegram was introduced, which contains the offer to buy and quotation mentioned in each of the preceding telegrams and letter (S. P. 1), to wit:
“Beaumont, Texas, Dec. 9, 1918. G. S. Clarke, Comanche, Texas. Eighteen fifty Comanche machine cast car lots. Immediate shipment. Wire acceptance. Texas Supply Co.”
Then was introduced in evidence the following telegram, which was the acceptance of the offer contained in the telegram last above quoted (S. P. 1), to. wit:
“Comanche Texas 10 20 AM Dec 10 1918. Texas Supply Co., Beaumont, Texas. Wirfe shipping instructions car cast. G. S. Clarke 11 11 AM.”
See testimony G. S. Clarke, the appellee herein, which was undisputed (S. P. p. 5), as follows:
“I was in Comanche county, Tex., when I received the telegram from the Texas Supply Company dated December 9, 1918, which quoted the price, ‘Eighteen fifty Comanche machine cast car lots. Wire acceptance.’ I was in Comanche county, Tex., when I accepted the offer made in that telegram, and I was in Comanche county, Tex., when I loaded the iron into the cars for 'shipment to tne Texas Supply Company, Incorporated.”
Under these facts Comanche county court had jurisdiction.
True, appellee, in his controverting plea refers to subdivision 10 of article 2308, R. S., which relates to justice courts, but he pleaded the facts “that the defendant is a private corporation and the cause of action or a part thereof arose in Comanche county, Tex.,” and this was sufficient to bring the case within exception No. 24, art. 1830, Rev. Stat., quoted in the original opinion. Dallas Waste Mills v. Early-Poster Co., 218 S. W. 515.
Por these reasons the motion for rehearing is granted, and cause affirmed.