Legal Opinion

City of Munday v. First State Bank of Munday

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 24, 1933No. 1172PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents the single question of whether a city having a population of less than five thousand inhabitants, and incorporated under the general law, may procura the issuance of a writ of attachment in a suit in which it is plaintiff without filing an attachment bond. The appellant, as plaintiff below, caused a writ of attachment to issue and be levied on property belonging to. certain of the appellees, which writ was subsequently quashed by the trial court, upon motion of appellees, on the ground that no bond in attachment was executed by it The correctness of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Blessing v. City of GalvestonTexas Supreme Court · 1874
  2. City of Athens v. EvansTexas Commission of Appeals · 1933
  3. Athens Telephone Co. v. City of AthensCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1914
  4. Smith v. City of DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  5. Frankenstein v. Rushmore GowdyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Forwood v. City of TaylorTexas Supreme Court · 1948
  2. City of Sherman v. Municipal Gas Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1939
  3. Board of Equalization v. McDonaldTexas Supreme Court · 1939
  4. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Texarkana National BankCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1984

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