Wood v. Lenox

RAINEY, Associate Justice.

In September, 1888, T. H. Lenox, one of the defendants in error, brought suit in the County Court of Bowie County against M. J. and S. C. Wood, plaintiffs in error, to recover of them 8423.52, and to foreclose a mortgage upon certain property therein described. A writ of sequestration was issued and levied upon same. In January,' 1889, the court house of Bowie County was destroyed by fire, and afterwards the attorney for the Woods informed Lenox that the papers in the case had been destroyed by said fire.

At the April Term of said County Court the papers were produced…