Letcher & Moore v. Morrison
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Orange. Tried below before Hon. Hal. W, Greer, Special District Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by appellants to recover a lot of pine logs or damages for their value.
Upon a trial before a jury a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant.
The petition charged, in general terms, that on or about the first day of September', 1884, plaintiffs owned and were in possession of the property, when it was unlawfully taken from his possession and converted by the defendant.
The plaintiffs proved by three witnesses that in July, 1884, Covington & Huff, who were partners, owned a large number of logs then lying i'n the Sabine River and in Quicksand…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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