Legal Opinion

M. A. Cooper & Co. v. Sawyer

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided March 18, 1903PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Hamilton. Tried below before Hon. W. J. Oxford. Sawyer sued Cooper & Company and others and recovered damages, and defendants appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

STREETMAH, Associate Justice.

This was an action brought by appellee, L. M. Sawyer, to recover damages for the levy of a writ of attachment upon a stock of merchandise.

The plaintiff claimed the property by virtue of a deed of trust executed to him by J'. E. Cline to secure certain creditors therein named. The defendants were the sheriff, who levied the writ, M. A. Cooper & Co., the plaintiffs in the attachment, and the sureties upon the bonds executed to procure the issuance and levy of the writ.

In accordance with the verdict of a jury, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff against all of…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Carl v. SettegastTexas Commission of Appeals · 1922
  2. Potter v. MobleyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1917
  3. La Fon v. GrimesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
  4. Sawyer v. First National Bank of HicoCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1906
  5. Madeley v. KellamCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1911

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