Temple Grocer Co. v. Clabaugh

This suit was brought December 8, 1896, by E.C. Clabaugh, the appellee, against the appellants, the Temple Grocer Company, a private corporation, L.J. Tankersly, sheriff of Bell County, and the sureties on his official bond, Spencer Young, Levi Anderson, D.W. Moore, and T.W. Cochran, to recover $1500 actual damages and $1000 exemplary damages for the taking and conversion of a stock of goods conveyed by W.R.D. Stockton, by a deed of trust for the benefit of certain creditors, in which Clabaugh is the trustee.

June 9, 1897, defendants answered by general demurrer, general denial, and special…