Rains v. Herring

Willie, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Mrs. L. I. Herring, joined by her husband, T. A. Herring, to recover of John D. Rains, sheriff of Jack county, and the sureties on his official bond, damages for an alleged illegal seizure By Rains of a stock of goods claimed to be the separate property of Mrs, *470Herring. The suit was filed on the twenty-first of December, 1885; on the fifteenth and twentieth of January, 1886, the defendants pleaded to the suit, and on the twenty-first of the-same month filed an amended answer to those pleadings, which answer, among other things, justified the…