Jones & Nixon v. First State Bank of Hamlin
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Jones County; C. C. Higgins, Judge. Action by Jones & Nixon against the First State Bank of Hamlin. From á judgment granting insufficient relief, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtConner, C. J.
This suit was instituted by appellants Jones & Nixon, on the 18th day of June, 1908, against the appellee, the First State Bank' of Hamlin, a private corporation doing business in Hamlin, and against W. H. Hollis, as sheriff of Jones county, Tex., and others, as sureties upon his official bond, to recover both actual and exemplary damages for the alleged wrongful seizure and conversion of 1042 cords of wood, alleged to belong to appellants as partners. The defendants pleaded the general denial, and specially to the effect that there was no actual levy of the writ of attachment by virtue of…
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