Wright v. Jones

The appellee, as plaintiff, brought this suit to recover actual and exemplary damages on account of the alleged illegal seizure and conversion of his horse by the appellants, who were defendants. The appellants are G.C. Wright, the sheriff and tax collector of Clay County, C.R. Sanders, his deputy, and F.J. Barrett, J.H. Bridges, E.W. Coleman, J.P. Metzger and A.J. Farmer, members of the County Commissioners Court of Clay County, Barrett being the county judge.

It is charged in the petition that the defendant Wright and his deputy levied upon the plaintiff's horse in Jack County, by virtue of…