Merrill v. Dunn

WALTHALL, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of the District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, in a trial of the right of property case.

The case is presented here on an agreed statement of facts.

The statement, abbreviated, is to the following effect:

On November 15, 1937, plaintiff, J. H. Merrill, filed an original petition in the District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas; the petition was docketed as No. A-3768, and styled “J. H. Merrill v. Texene Packing Corporation and Curtis Dunn, Inc.”

On the above date, plaintiff filed his affidavit for attachment and bond; the writ of…