Gray & Wallace v. Steedman Bros.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Hi chard Haltbie. Appellants begun this suit by attachment in the county court on open account for §493.25. The case was transferred to the district court on account of the disqualification of the county judge. September 3,1881, original answer filed by defendants in district court. May 9, 4883, defendants filed motion to quash the attachment.
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Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Hi chard Haltbie. Appellants begun this suit by attachment in the county court on open account for §493.25. The case was transferred to the district court on account of the disqualification of the county judge. September 3,1881, original answer filed by defendants in district court. May 9, 4883, defendants filed motion to quash the attachment. May 21, 1883, plaintiffs were granted leave for the officer to amend the jurat to the affidavit for attachment. September 25, 1883, defendants’ motion to quash the attachment was sustained, plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
Ifc is assigned as error that the court erred in sustaining the defendants’ motion to quash the attachment, the grounds of which will be considered in their order, viz.:
1st. The bond binds J. W. Gray and J. E. Wallace jointly, but not as a firm, nor does it state that they compose a firm.
2d. The principals in the bond have not signed it; the principals, as appearing therefrom, are J. W. Gray and J. E. Wallace, and the bond is not signed by them, but by “ Gray & Wallace.”
The plaintiffs sue on their account as a firm composed of J. W. Gray and J. E. Wallace, doing…
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