Triplett v. Morris

Suit was brought February 27, 1891, by John S. Triplett, Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, Gauss-Shelton Hat Company, and Rindskoff-Stern-Lauer Co., against the sheriff of Hood County and the sureties on his official bond, for conversion, under attachment writ in favor of the First National Bank of Granbury against A.G. Dabney, of "certain clothing, dry goods, shoes, etc.," of the alleged value of $2500.

A jury trial was had upon a second amended petition, filed September 23, 1895, in the name of John S. Triplett alone, but which stated the facts substantially as in the original, and from a verdict…