P. J. Willis & Brother v. Whitsitt

Willie, Chief Justice.

Willis & Brother, being creditors of E. P. Kellam, sued out an attachment against his property, and caused it to be levied by W. S. Blanton, sheriff of Bell county, upon a stock of goods in the possession of the appellee. This suit was brought by the appellee against Willis & Brother and the said sheriff and the sureties upon his bond for damages alleged to have been incurred by reason of the seizure and conversion of said property. The defense was a general denial and a .justification of the levy on the ground that the goods were the *675property of Kellam; and if they had…