White v. Sterzing

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Fred Sterzing, brought this suit against R. E. White, sheriff of Travis County, and the sureties on his official bond, and Hartley & Graham and the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and the sureties on indemnity bonds given by them, to recover the value of certain personal property, consisting in the main of a stock of merchandise. The plaintiff pleaded his title from one J. C. Petmecky, under a deed of trust executed to plaintiff, as trustee, to ■ secure certain creditors of said Petmecky, and alleged that, by taking the property under certain attachments issued…