P. J. Willis & Bro. v. Thompson
Texas Supreme Court
The counsel for the appellants have made the following statement of the nature and result of the suit, viz.: “On the 26th of October, 1888, P. J. Willis & Bro. filed suit in the District Court of McLennan County against J. W. Satterfield & Bro.
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The counsel for the appellants have made the following statement of the nature and result of the suit, viz.: “On the 26th of October, 1888, P. J. Willis & Bro. filed suit in the District Court of McLennan County against J. W. Satterfield & Bro. (W, I. Satterfield) on note and open account due by the firm of J. W. Satterfield & Bro., aggregating the sum of $1429.80, and caused writ of attachment to issue, which was levied upon the goods and lots in question about 8 o’clock on that evening; the sheriff finding Mrs. Satterfield, wife of J. W. Satterfield, in possession of the key to the store,…
1Opinion of the Court
MARR, Judge,
Section A.—In the motion for a new trial the appellant objected for the first time to the sufficiency of the appellee’s replevy bond, upon the ground that Jink Evans, who is one of the beneficiaries in the trust deed, was also one of the two sureties that had been acceptéd upon the bond, and therefore, that the court had no jurisdiction of this controversy. We think that the objection came too late, even if otherwise tenable. The bond was not void, and the appellants had treated the security as ample until after the trial of the cause.
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