Temple Grocery Co. v. Sullivan

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellee W. F. Sullivan instituted this suit against Temple Grocery Company, S. E. W. Hudson, sheriff of San Saba County, and the sureties on his official bond, to recover damages for the conversion of a stock of merchandise alleged to belong to the plaintiff.

The Temple Grocery Company pleaded a general denial, and a special plea to the effect that Sullivan and one W. F. Johnson had entered into a conspiracy to defraud the creditors of W. F. Johnson, among whom was the Temple Grocery Company, and that the title to the property which Sullivan claimed to have obtained…