Dewitt v. Oppenheimer & Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
In this case the appellees, as plaintiffs below, sued the appellant, as sheriff of Gonzales county, for damages for an alleged insufficient levy of writ of attachment in their favor against Gillespie and Elkins. The plaintiffs obtained judgment for §200, from which this appeal is prosecuted.
The issue tendered by the plaintiffs was, that the defendant, after having made a sufficient levy, released a portion of the same, by reason of which they had lost a large amount of their debt.
The defendant seeks to justify, partly, on the ground that the plaintiffs had not given…
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