Loftus v. Williams

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

On September 16, 1899, in a suit in the District Court of Harris County, the appellant, T. F. Loftus, recovered a judgment against one W. C. Archer for the sum of $714 and costs of suit, with foreclosure of a landlord’s lien. Property of the defendant Archer had been seized by virtue of a distress warrant sued out against him by Loftus which, pending the suit, was sold by order of the court, and the proceeds, amounting to the sum of $1075, were paid into the registry of the court and into the hands of the appellee, J. B. Williams, as the clerk thereof. Archer was a…