Hall v. Eastland County

HARPER, C. J. Eastland county brought this suit in Eastland county against the Security State Bank & Trust Company and Ed Hall, commissioner of insurance and banking, and J. B. Burnett, liquidating agent, alleging that it deposited in said bank, located in said county,-certain moneys, that they were noninterest bearing and unsecured, and prayed that they be so classified, and that “Ed Hall, commissioner, be directed to recognize such approval and classification and to pay same in full.” *1114 Said Hall, commissioner, filed plea of privilege to be sued in Travis county, and the court overruled the plea. Notice of appeal from said order was given. Thereafter Hall resigned, and J. L. Chapman was appointed to succeed him, and intervened 'in the suit. [1] No appeal bond was given, and appellee moves this, court to dismiss .this appeal upon the ground that the commissioner of insurance and banking is not the head of a department within the meaning of R. S. art. 2105, exempting heads of departments from giving bond- This is not well taken under the holding in Herring, v. Houston Nat. Exch. Bank (Tex.) 253 S. W. 813. [2] Next it is urged that Chapman, as successor, is not empowered to prosecute this appeal. Article 2099a, Yernon’s Revised Civil Statutes 19Í8, makes' the necessary provision by, declaring that the suit shall not abate. [3] Upon the merits of the appeal from the order overruling the plea of privilege, the Supreme Court, in Kidder v. Hall (Tex.) 251 S. W. 497, held that the action on claim against insolvent banks must be brought in the district court of the county in which the bank was located. The . court, therefpre, did not err in overruling the plea of privilege, and the case must be affirmed, and it is so ordered. Footnotes [1] <©=s>For other cases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes