Blum v. Strong

Gaines, Associate Justice.

The motion in this case asks a rehearing upon the ground that the plea in abatement in the lower court should have been sustained. The petition sought to recover damage of appellants for wrongfully and maliciously suing out an attachment against appellee, and also of appellants and one Costley, the officer who levied the writ, for an illegal and oppressive levy, in which appellants were alleged to have participated. The plea in abatement averred the residence of two of appellants in Galveston county, and that of the third in Hew York, and denied any participation in…