Kasling v. Morris

Walker, Associate Justice.

On the tenth day of March, 1886, at night, the store house of appellee, R. A. Morris, in the town of Linden, Cass county, Texas, was broken into and his iron safe, therein situated, was very artistically blown open, burglarized and robbed of about one hundred and seventy-five dollars in money. Early next morning, and immediately upon the discovery of the burglary, Morris publicly, and many times, offered a reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest and conviction of the thief or thieves. Plaintiff E. S. Kasling was the constable of the town and precinct where the…