Legal Opinion

East & West Texas Lumber Co. v. Williams

Texas Supreme Court

Decided October 16, 1888No. 2499PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Appeal from Upshur, Tried below before the Hon. F. J. McCord. The full and accurate abstract of the record furnished in the brief of the appellants is given as a statement of the case.

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Appeal from Upshur, Tried below before the Hon. F. J. McCord. The full and accurate abstract of the record furnished in the brief of the appellants is given as a statement of the case. On the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth of June, 1888, these appellants, except the E. & W. L. Co., and other creditors of the East and West Texas Lumber Company, instituted their respective suits by original attachments in the district court of Upshur county, Texas, against the said lumber company, and sued out and caused to be levied writs of attachment upon the property of said company by the sheriff of…

1Opinion of the Court

Gaines, Associate Justice.

The plaintiffs below, who are appellees here, brought this suit against the defendants, who are now appellants, alleging in their petition that the East and West Lumber Company was a corporation of which one Mings was secretary and one Lowe was general superintendent and manager; that defendants Brown, Boyd, Daniels, Barnwell, Warren & Son, Mings, Hawley & Heidenheimer, Burrige and Foggin, had eoch brought a suit against the company in an action of debt in the district court of Upshur county, and caused attachments to issue and to be levied upon the property of the…

2Cited by18 opinions

  1. Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 2001
  2. Village Mills Co. v. Houston Oil Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1916
  3. Burt v. DeorsamCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1920
  4. Urban v. BagbyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1926
  5. Elliott v. MorrisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1908

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