Gould v. Baker

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee hired lodging from appellant Gould, who furnished him a' room over his saloon in the town of Gainesville. During the second night his money, amounting to $495, was stolen from beneath his pillow. He thereupon sued Gould and appellant Jacobs, the bartender, and recovered judgment against them in that sum. He also caused the property of Gould to be attached, and, as it was replevied, judgment went also against the other appellants as sureties on the replevy bond.

The petition charged: “That defendants fraudulently and unlawfully and by means of false…