Pring v. Pratt

Clarence E. Pratt filed, in the district court of the Sixty-Eighth judicial district of Texas, a suit for wages alleged to be due him under a contract of employment, against the Erost Manufacturing Company, a corporation, of Galesburg, Ill. The suit was numbered 57128 — G in said court. Upon the filing of the suit, a writ of attachment was issued, and was levied by the sheriff on a certain steam engine, which defendant in error in his petition on the trial of the right of property, describes as follows: “One steam engine No. 9260, right-hand, side-crank, automatic engine, steam-jacketed.”

The…