Beville v. City of Longview

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Members of the police department of the city of Longview, a municipal corporation, caught up and placed in its pound pen a stray mule roaming at large within its corporate limits. Thereafter the police department released the mule upon payment of the pound fee to a third party who fraudulently represented that he was the owner of the mule 'and that it had escaped from his premises near Greggton in said county. This third party, who gave his name as J. M. Davis, thus obtained possession. He has converted the mule to his own use and benefit by disappearing with the mule to…