J. R. Watkins Co. v. King

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by E. C. King, Jr., hereinafter called appellee, against D. H. Carpenter in his capacity as sheriff of Camp county, to restrain him from selling certain tracts of land situated in said county, containing in the aggregate approximately 1,600 acres, as the property of E. C. King, Sr., under an execution issued on a judgment in favor of appellant J. R. Watkins Company, a corporation, against E. C. King, Sr., and another for the sum of $869.66. Appellee, as ground for such relief, alleged that the land so levied upon and advertised for sale…