Dunagan v. Griffin

SPEER, Justice.

H. B. Dunagan, doing business as Duna-gan Brothers, plaintiff, sued H. G. Whitehead and Fort Worth Warehouse & Storage Company, defendants, in Tarrant County Court at Law No. 1, to recover possession of 499 cases of beer, valued at $850.

Plaintiff alleged that on about July 10th, 1939, he employed Whitehead to haul the beer from Houston to Big Springs, Texas, and gave him a check payable to Gulf Brewing Company, with which to pay for the beer when received from the Brewing Company. That Whitehead went to Houston, received the beer on his truck and delivered the check in payment.…