Crawford v. Doggett

GAINES, Associate Justice.

The appellants, who are husband and wife, brought this suit to recover of appellee a tract of land upon which he was living with his family. They also sued out a writ of sequestration, by virtue of which the sheriff dispossessed the defendant of the property and held it until it was replevied by the latter. The defendant pleaded in reconvention, alleging that the writ of sequestration was unlawfully and maliciously issued, and prayed for the recovery of both actual and exemplary damages. He averred in his plea that when dispossessed of his property he had been…