Deware v. Wichita Valley Mill & Elevator Co.

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellees, Wichita Valley Mill and Elevator Company, Sladen Kirksey Woolen Mills, Sanders Duck and Bubber Company, Wyland, Aekerland & Co., R. Douglass Crockery Company, H. R. Krite & Co., Fink & Basse, and William A. Orr Shoe Company, against the appellants, on a claim bond executed by appellant J-.-M. Deware, as trustee, as principal, and the appellants T. J. Rogers and B. F. Rogers, as sureties on said claim bond, on December 22, 1894.

On September 18, 1895, appellees filed their.petition in the District Court of Marion County, Texas,…