Loving Publishing Co. v. Johnson

Willie, Chief Justice.

The appellant sued out an attachment against the property of Surber & Taylor, and caused it to be levied upon a stock of goods to which the appellees made claim under our statute for the trial of the right of property. The goods, at the date of the levy, were in the possession of Surber & Taylor; so the burden of proof as to their ownership was upon the appellees. They sought to prove this by a written agreement entered into between the appellees and Surber & Taylor, January 11, 1883, wherein the former, for the consideration of one thousand three *274hundred and…