Ferguson v. Barnes

This suit was filed in the district court of Bandera county by appellants to recover actual and exemplary damages claimed to have been sustained by them by the alleged wrongful ejectment of appellants from certain premises in their possession, and to which they had a contractual right for a given period of time. They alleged that the defendants F. D. Barnes, W. H. and S. C. Fitzgerald, Henry Stevens (the sheriff), and C. B. Corley, the justice of the peace at Bandera, were acting together therein, but the sheriff and justice of the peace were not sued officially, nor were their bondsmen made…