McGuffin v. Sowell

KEY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee, P. S. Sowell, as assignee of the firm of Roby & Nichols, to recover the value of certain personal property alleged to belong to him as such assignee and to have been seized and converted by appellant McGuffin as sheriff of Guadalupe County, etc. Appellee’s title to said property and right to recover for its conversion depends upon the validity of a deed of assignment, which reads as follows:

“ The State of Texas, Guadalupe County. — Know all men by these presents, that whereas the firm of Roby & Nichols, which said firm is com posed of…