Smith v. Geer

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

On January 16, 1892, E. J. Geer filed suit in the County Court of Grayson County against S. TJ. Smith and E. P. Dean on their bond as retail liquor dealers, and against B. B. Dixon, J. P. Hopson, Jeff Jennings, Jo Rafelli, and A. A. Fielder as sureties on said bond. He claimed liquidated damages in the sum of $500 for a breach of said bond. He alleged that Smith & Dean were engaged in the retail liquor business in the city of Sherman, under a bond as the law requires, and that on January 1, 1892, and on each succeeding day thereafter until the filing of this suit,…