Bateman v. Hipp

NEILL, Associate Justice.

Hipp sued Bateman to recover six head of mules, alleged to be worth $1,050, and for the further sum of $150, the alleged value of their use or hire while possession was wrongfully withheld by defendant from plaintiff. The defendant answered by a general denial, and by a plea in reconvention for damages caused him by a breach of contract, hereinafter mentioned, made by plaintiff with defendant, which was, as plaintiff knew, the inducement and sole cause of defendant’s agreement to purchase the mules from him.

When the suit was filed a writ of sequestration was sued out…