[Contracts for sale of real estate; venue of action.]

An action to compel the specific performance of a contract of sale of real estate may be brought in the county where the defendants or any of them reside; but if any of the defendants are nonresidents of the state, it shall be brought in the county where the real estate or some part thereof is situated. History: Laws 1933, ch. 9, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 25-1601; 1953 Comp., § 22-18-1.