Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Stockton

A. D. Stockton and wife instituted this suit to restrain the sale under execution of lot 2, in block 32, Polytechnic Heights addition to the city of Fort Worth. The defendants in the suit were the Magnolia Petroleum Company and Carl Smith, sheriff, who had levied an execution on the property to collect a judgment recovered by the Magnolia Petroleum Company against A. D. Stockton for the sum of $104, with interest and costs. The grounds for injunction were, first, that the property levied on was exempt from forced sale because at the time of levy it was occupied and used by the plaintiff as…