Love v. Henderson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from ¡Nueces. Tried below before the Hon. T. 0. Barden. Suit filed October 31, A.D. 1864, by John Henderson in District Court of San Patricio county, on a written contract, set out in petition, by which Love agreed to let Henderson have charge of his stock of brood mares, from the 12th of October, A.D. 1863, to the 1st day of March, A.D. 1866, on shares, as stipulated, Henderson to pay expenses of management of stock; charging, that Love, in October, A.D. 1864, with…
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Appeal from ¡Nueces. Tried below before the Hon. T. 0. Barden. Suit filed October 31, A.D. 1864, by John Henderson in District Court of San Patricio county, on a written contract, set out in petition, by which Love agreed to let Henderson have charge of his stock of brood mares, from the 12th of October, A.D. 1863, to the 1st day of March, A.D. 1866, on shares, as stipulated, Henderson to pay expenses of management of stock; charging, that Love, in October, A.D. 1864, with force and arms, took possession of said stock and violated said contract; claiming damages to the amount of $12,000. By…
1Opinion of the CourtReeves, J.
This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages in consideration of his care and attention to a stock of brood mares placed in his possession by Josephus Love, the ancestor of appellants, under a written agreement between the parties to divide the increase, and which, as alleged in the petition, Love had wrongfully taken away and converted the property to his own use, in violation of the agreement.
*522The death of the defendant Love was suggested, and scire facias was ordered to be issued to his legal representatives when known. This was at the fall term, 1867.
Before the death of Love he had…
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