Parlin Orendorff Co. v. Coffey, Sheriff

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

Parlin & Orendorff Company filed its petition in the District Court of Collin County in January, 1898, against W. S. Coffey, sheriff of that county, and B. F. Houston, alleging, in substance, that on November 4, 1897, said B. F. Houston recovered a judgment against petitioner in a claimant’s suit in which petitioner was claimant in the sum of $700, the value of an engine, with 10 per cent damages on said sum, and the judgment further found the value of the use of the engine while in the possession of the claimant to be $300. A copy of the judgment was made a part…