Coggin v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

PELPHREY, Chief Justice.

Some time prior to September 1932, J. W. Burson and W. L. McIntosh filed a suit against plaintiff in error in the district court of Dallam county, Tex., seeking to recover the sum of $1,750 alleged to be due as commission on the sale of certain real estate owned by plaintiff in error. Thereafter a writ of garnishment was issued in which one Ted Houghton was named as garnishee. On September 28, 1932, plaintiff in error signed an application to defendant in error for a bond in the sum of $3,500, for a release of the garnishment. In this application plaintiff in error…