Smith v. Harvey

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This action for damages was brought by W. F. Smith against J. H. Harvey, and S. F. Hunt, sheriff of San Patricio county, alleging that his damages were' occasioned by issuance and levy of a wrongful writ of sequestration procured by Harvey and executed by Hunt, as sheriff, through one of his deputies. The trial judge sustained certain special exceptions, and, finally, the general demurrer to Smith’s petition, and then dismissed the cause upon failure to amend. Smith has' appealed. The parties will be herein referred to as plaintiff and defendant, respectively, as in the…