Weaver v. Ashcroft
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. The facts are fully stated in the opinion, in which will be found the charges referred to in appellant’s brief.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
B. F. Ashcroft seeks in this suit to recover damages of James A. Weaver, sheriff of Hopkins county, for an alleged trespass in forcibly taking possession of a stock of goods, alleged by Ashcroft to be his property, and of the store-house in which said goods were kept for sale. The sheriff was acting under an attachment against the property of Isham Bussell, who was, up to July 21,1871, in partnership with Ashcroft, but who on that day had executed to Ashcroft a transfer or bill of sale of his interest in the stock of goods. Weaver alleged that this sale br transfer…
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