Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““It is seen that the first clause of Article 4975 comprehends any suit on a bond of the character contemplated by Articles 4969 and 4970, and in express terms provides the place where, according to the provisions of Article 4970, such a suit ‘shall be brought.’ The mandatory character of this language, considered in connection with similar language contained in Subdivision 30 of Article 1995, leaves no room to doubt that the legislature meant to lay the venue of such a suit exclusively in the county in which such bond is filed, regardless of where, in this State, any of the obligors on the bond may reside. In the light of the context, it is not reasonable to infer that the legislature intended to authorize such a suit to be brought in any other county when it provided, as it did in Article 4975 that: ‘Such guaranty, fidelity and surety companies shall be deemed resident of the counties wherever they may do business.’ So far as a suit on any bond comprehended by Articles 4969 and 4970 is concerned, the last quoted language means nothing more than that the residence of the surety company is fixed, for the purposes of such suit, in the county where the bond sued on is filed. “As we have seen, the bond sued on is the official bond of Virge Foster, as sheriff of Eastland County. By Article 6866, this bond is required to be approved by the Commissioners Court of Eastland County, and by Article 6000 of the Statutes the same is required to be ‘safely kept and recorded by the county c”

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