Briggs v. Briggs

C. E. Briggs sued his brother W. M. Briggs in the justice court of Bowie county and procured the issuance of an attachment which was levied upon an undivided three-fourths interest in two bales of cotton then stored in warehouses at New Boston as the property of the defendant. W. A. Briggs, a third brother, claiming to be a lien-holder in possession of the cotton, filed his claimant’s affidavit and bond; and the issues presented in that branch of the case present the only questions involved in this appeal. In the county court a verdict was instructed in favor of the claimant, and the appeal…