J. T. Sullivan & Co. v. Cleveland
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. On December 5, 1883, J. T. Sullivan & Co. sued out of the district court, of Navarro county a writ of attachment against Hollinger & Sims, failing merchants of the town of Dawson, in Navarro county. On the same day, Sparks, Mallory & Allen sued out of the county court of McLennan county attachments against Hollinger & Sims. Sutherland & Montgomery also, sued out attachment against them on the same day.
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Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. On December 5, 1883, J. T. Sullivan & Co. sued out of the district court, of Navarro county a writ of attachment against Hollinger & Sims, failing merchants of the town of Dawson, in Navarro county. On the same day, Sparks, Mallory & Allen sued out of the county court of McLennan county attachments against Hollinger & Sims. Sutherland & Montgomery also, sued out attachment against them on the same day. On December 6, 1883, W. D. Cleveland, of Houston, and Miller & English, of Galvesto.n, also sued out attachments against the…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
Under all the facts disclosed by the testimony, when taken and considered together as a whole (and there is, in fact, no actual conflict of evidence, or very marked dis*681agreement, between the parties litigant, as to what those facts really were), it is believed that the district court committed no serious error in rendering the judgment finally entered in the case as to the rights of the contending creditors.
It appears quite clearly from the evidence that the appellants, for reasons which were satisfactory to themselves, and which are fully disclosed by the proof…
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