Cravans v. Wilson

This is an action of trespass to try title, appealed from the District Court of Shelby county. The subject of controversy is a tract of land containing about nine hundred acres. On the twenty-ninth of March, 1866, the appellant, Cravans, sued out an attachment against the property of Benjamin Wilson. The officer holdingthe attachment levied on a quantity of cotton, which was estimated by him at sixty thous- and pounds. The cotton was contained in a house in close proximity to the dwelling of the defendant, Benjamin Wilson, and the officer appears to have left it under his control for about…