Keesee v. Cate

FOLLEY, Justice.

This suit was filed in Cause No. 679 in the County Court of Terry County, Texas, by the appellant J. V. Keesee against the appellee J. A. Cate seeking $129.96 actual, and $500 exemplary, dafnages for the alleged wrongful sequestration by the ap-pellee of six bales of appellant’s cotton sequestered in a former suit in the same court.

The appellant alleged that in November, 1937, Cate as plaintiff sued him as defendant in Cause No. 648 in the County Court of Terry County alleging a landlord’s lien upon the cotton produced by the appellant from thirty acres of land belonging to…