Legal Opinion

First State Bank v. Jones Nixon

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 30, 1910PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Jones County. Tried below before Hon. C. C. Higgins.

1Opinion of the Court

CONNEB, Chief Justice.

Appellees as partners instituted this suit on the 14th of March, 1908, against appellant, First State Bank of Hamlin, a private corporation, and against W. H. Hollis, as sheriff of Jones County, and against B. S. Davidson, Ed Kennedy and C. H. Steele, sureties upon the officer’s bond, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful seizure and conversion of one thousand and forty-two cords of wood, alleged to belong to the plaintiffs and to have been wrongfully converted to the use of the defendants under a writ of attachment issued- at the suit of the First State Bank of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Crawford v. ThomasonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909
  2. W. D. Smith & Co. v. WhitfieldTexas Supreme Court · 1886
  3. Gassett v. SargeantSupreme Court of Vermont · 1854
  4. Metz v. BremondTexas Supreme Court · 1855

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Jefferson Fire Ins. Co. of Philadelphia v. GreenwoodCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1911
  2. Freear-Brin Furniture Co. v. MerrittCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915

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