Parlin Orendorff Co. v. Glover Crews

KEY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for the recovery of nineteen wagons of the value of $1140, charged by the plaintiff to have been obtained from it by one H. A. McMeans by fraud and under such circumstances as that the purported sale from the plaintiff to McMeans did not vest in the latter right to the property and left the superior title in the plaintiff. The plaintiff charged that the defendants had attempted to" purchase th% wagons from McMeans, but had acquired no title thereto. At the instance of the plaintiff a writ of sequestration was issued and the wagons seized by the sheriff…