City of Desdemona v. Wilhite

The appellee’s suit was to recover from the appellant and W. O. McGuire actual and exemplary damages arising from an alleged unlawful impounding and detention of certain animals belonging to appellee, by said McGuire, acting as city marshal and poundmaster for the appellant. The allegations are that the said McGuire took possession of said cattle under añ ordinance of the city of Desdemona purporting to authorize and require the impounding of animals running at large in said city, and kept said animals in said pound from the 24th of January until the 15th of June, 1926; that by reason of the…