Adoue & Lobit v. H. Seeligson & Co.

Moore, Chief Justice.

That the questions involved in the case may be the more readily and correctly understood, we precede their consideration by the statement of the nature and result of the suit as furnished the court by appellee’s counsel in their brief, to wit:

“This suit involved the trial of the right of property under the statute. James Arbuckle, engaged in business in the city of Galveston as a commission merchant and cotton factor, under the firm name of Jas. Arbuckle & Co., owned one hundred and thirty bales of cotton, the property in controversy, on the 14th day of November, 1877,…