Moore & Rollow v. Graham

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants on a promissory note to recover a balance of $552.53. At the time the suit was instituted an attachment was sued out and levied upon twenty-five acres of cotton growing upon premises leased by appellee.

The appellee, defendant below, plead general denial; payment of the note; that the cotton levied on was growing on his homestead, and exempt from execution; that it had been converted by appellants to appellee’s damage in the sum of $600; and that the writ of attachment was wrongfully and maliciously sued out, for which he asked in…