Gregory, Cooley & Co. v. Coleman & Estes

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees to recover of appellants damages, both actual and exemplary, on account of the seizure at Kansas City, Missouri, under a writ of replevin, of 74 beef steers, the property of appellees, which were in transit from Amarillo, Texas, to Chicago, Illinois.. There was a compromise of the replevin suit, by the terms of which one of the appellees, P. C. Coleman, received of appellants the sum of $1765.83 as a compromise settlement of the value of the cattle in contro versy in said cause, and agreed not to bring any suit upon the replevin…