Wagner v. Marple

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

We take from the appellants’ brief .the following substantially accurate statement of this suit:

“This is an ordinary action, brought October 17, 1893, by appellee, F. M. Marple, against W. D. Wagner, D. G Smith, J. E. Ledbetter, and Eugene Stearns, for conversion of personal property, alleged by Marple to belong to him and to be of the value of $2600. All of the defendants pleaded the general denial, and defendants Smith, Ledbetter, and Stearns pleaded that the property was in the possession of the Quanah Publishing Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the…