Martin v. Jourdanton Mercantile Co.

George M. Martin sued the Jourdanton Mercantile Company for $545, as actual damages suffered by reason of the conversion of two mules, one horse, and three hogs, alleged to have been the property of plaintiff. Plaintiff also sought to recover $400 as exemplary damages. Defendant answered by general denial, and a special answer to the effect that the property in question was not owned by plaintiff or in his possession when seized, on or about March 9, 1914, by the sheriff by virtue of a valid writ of attachment issued out of the justice’s court of precinct No. 1 of Atascosa county; that at…