Groesbeck v. Evans

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellee, J. T. Evans, in a suit brought by him against J. D. Owens procured the issuance of a writ of attachment and said writ was, on November 23, 1903, levied upon 130 sacks of rice claimed by appellee to be the property of Owens. Appellant claimed the rice, and in due time filed a claimant’s affidavit and bond as required by the. statute for a .trial of the right of property. The appellant filed in the court below quite a lengthy pleading setting out fully his claim to the property in controversy. This pleading alleges in substance that the rice in question…