John E. Morrison & Co. v. Murff
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harris County ; John S. Prince, Judge. Suit by L. A. Murff against John E. Morrison & Co. and others. From judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
Morrison & Co., a corporation, levied an execution upon and had the sheriff o,f Harris county to take into possession for sale thereunder, a Davis Chummy roadster automobile belonging to Murff. Murff then filed this suit in the Fifty-Fifth district court against the company, making the sheriff a party, claiming the car levied upon to be exempt to him by virtue of article 3785, Revised Statutes of Texas, under sworn petition alleging that he was the head of a family, that he owned no other property of the same kind or character, that being the only automobile,, carriage, or vehicle then…
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