Harris v. Walter H. Tenney & Co.

COLLARD, Judge,

Section A.—This suit was brought June 27, 1889, by the appellees Walter H. Tenney & Co., a firm of merchants in Boston, Massachusetts, against W. T. Harris, sheriff of McLennan County, and the Waco State Bank, to establish their right to the possession of certain goods, or the value thereof, which had been seized by the sheriff at the instance of the bank, and sold and converted to the use of the bank. The cause of action of plaintiffs is predicated upon their alleged seller’s lien upon the goods, or right of stoppage in transitu. The value of the goods itemized in the account…