Thomas Fruit Co. v. Levergood

REID, C.

The plaintiff, Thomas Pruit Company, in its amended petition, stated its cause of action in great detail, but it, in substance, alleg'ed that it was a copartnership composed of J. J. Thomas and J. W. Thomas, doing business in Wichita Palls, Tex.; that plaintiff was the owner of a Pord car which was stolen by persons unknown to it, and brought, on March 21, 1926, to Shawnee, Okla., arid there recovered by the police of said city, who were holding it for the purpose of ascertaining the owner of the. car, when the defendant, John T. Levergood, who was the police judge of Shawnee, and-an…