Coppard v. Gardner
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Dimmit County; J. F. Mullally, Judge. Suit by M. Coppard and others against W. T. Gardner, Sheriff, and others. Judgment for plaintiff as against certain defendants and in favor of defendant Gardner. Exceptions by F. Yandervoort, the Memphis Coffin Company, and A. P. Johnson sustained. Plaintiff and cross-defendants Kell Milling Company, J. E. Doran, and J. A. Birdsong appeal. Affirmed as between plaintiff and defendant Gardner.
1Opinion of the CourtPly, C. J.
This is a suit instituted by M. Coppard, trustee of the estate of Mary E. Butler, bankrupt, against W. T. Gardner, individually and as sheriff of Dimmit county, for conversion of property of said Mary E. Butler, a petition) for bankruptcy having been filed, on account of her insolvency, on March IS, 1914, and the said Coppard had been duly appointed trustee of her estate. Attached to the petition is an itemized list and statement of values of the articles of personal property alleged to have been converted. The sheriff answered, in effect, that he had seized and sold the property in question…
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