Baker v. Simmons

Suit by appellants against appellees to recover for the value of eight head of cattle alleged to have been unlawfully sold under and by virtue of the stock laws forbidding the running at large of stock. Judgment was for appellees and we have the case on appeal.

Eight head of cattle belonging to J. W. Baker and W. H. Baker escaped from a pasture where they were confined near the City of Port Arthur, Texas, and were taken up by Ramey Hollier, Deputy Constable under J. Ross Simmons, Constable, and impounded as stock unlawfully running at large in territory where the running at large of stock was…