Coughran v. Edmondson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Second District, in an appeal from Mitchell County. Edmondson sued Coughran and another.' A judgment for defendants was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals on plaintiffs appeal. Appellees obtained writ of error on the ground that the ruling conflicted with previous decisions.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
court.
The suit was instituted by W. L. Edmondson against G. B. Coughran, sheriff of Mitchell County, and the City National Bank of Colorado, for damages for the conversion of a stock of goods, attached by the sheriff as the property of J. A. Henderson at the suit of the bank against the latter. Edmondson claimed that the goods were his property at the time of the seizure. The defendants contended that the goods belonged to Henderson and were properly subject to the levy, and that the transaction whereby Edmondson was clothed with the apparent title to them was fraudulent and but a device for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- P. W. Gallagher & Co. v. Goldfrank, Frank & Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1890
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