Legal Opinion

Faroux v. Cornwell

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 10, 1905PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the County Court of Wharton County. Tried below before Hon. G. S. Gordon.

1Opinion of the Court

GILL, Chief Justice.

H. H. Cornwell and wife brought this suit against Charles Faroux, as principal, and T. J. Poole and Wm. Finlcelstein, as sureties on his attachment bond, to recover damages actual and exemplary for the wrongful and malicious issuance and levy of the writ. George W. Pittman and the sureties on his official bond as constable were also made defendants, and a like judgment was asked against them on the ground that Pittman, acting With and under the direction of Faroux, the plaintiff in attachment, had levied the writ on exempt household goods, and that in making the levy they…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Biering v. First National BankTexas Supreme Court · 1888

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Carroll v. First State Bank of DenisonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1912
  2. Snyder v. StokesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1930
  3. Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank of Dallas v. RandersonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1939
  4. United States Fire Insurance Co. v. McDanielCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1966
  5. Dunaway v. TrouttSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1960

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