Armstrong v. Traylor and Elmore

BROWH, Associate Justice.

The following statement and questions are submitted to this court by the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District:

“The suit was brought by appellant, William Armstrong, in a Justice Court of San Jacinto County, against the appellees, J. H. Traylor and Emma Elmore, to recover of them a certain hog, or its value, $25, alleged to be wrongfully withheld from his possession by the defendants. Defendants answered, admitting the possession of plaintiff’s hog, but that they were rightfully in possession thereof, because it had been impounded and sold by virtue of the law…