Coulson v. Panhandle Nat. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to tlxe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Texas. At Law. Action by J. 0. Coulson against the Panhandle National Bank and F. M. Davis for damages for the unlawful seizure of a flock of goats. Verdict for plaintiff, who, being dissatisfied with the damages, moved for a new trial. The motion was overruled, and judgment entered. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
This action was commenced by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error in the United States circuit court for the northern district of Texas to recover damages, actual and punitory, for the alleged wrongful seizure and conversion of a certain flock of Angora goats, alleged to have been the property *856of the plaintiff. The facts of the case sufficiently appear from the bill of exceptions, .as follows:
“Bo it remembered, that on tlie trial of the above-entitled cause the plain' tiff, J. 0. Coulson, offered evidence tending to prove that Bessie Maddox was his…
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