Taylor v. Lafevers

This suit was filed by the appellee, Lafevers, in the court below against P. G. Taylor and the Taylor-Hanna-James Company, a private corporation, to recover the sum of $4,292.65 as actual and $5,000 as exemplary damages for the breach of a contract for the sale of a number of notes and accounts, and in the alternative for their conversion. The evidence shows that the Elk Mercantile Company, doing business in the town of Elk in McLennan county, had filed a petition in bankruptcy, and John Maxwell had been appointed a trustee of the bankrupt estate, which consisted of a stock of goods, store…