Houston Rice Milling Co. v. Hankamer

FLY, Associate Justice,

Appellant applied for a writ of injunction to restrain the collection of judgments obtained by twenty-five persons against it in a Justice’s Court of Chambers County, each one based on a separate claim. It was alleged that Lee Barrow, Clarence Barrow, John M. Barrow and Eliza J. Barrow were sued with appellant, they having employed each of the plaintiffs to do certain work in and about certain rice, appellant being sought to be held liable on the ground that it had converted the rice with full knowledge that each of them had a laborer’s lien on it. Appellant denied the…