Jones v. Epperson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Polk. Tried below before the Hon. Edwin Hobby. This suit was instituted on the ninth day of April, 1884, by Mrs. Hattie Jones, joined by her husband, J. H. Jones, plaintiffs, against T. J. Epperson, sheriff of Polk county, and Charles Heidenheimer, Jake Stern and D. M. Ehrlich, copartners, composing the mercantile firm of Charles Heidenheimer & Company, of Galveston, for damages growing out of an alleged trespass by the defendants on «the first day of April,…
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Appeal from Polk. Tried below before the Hon. Edwin Hobby. This suit was instituted on the ninth day of April, 1884, by Mrs. Hattie Jones, joined by her husband, J. H. Jones, plaintiffs, against T. J. Epperson, sheriff of Polk county, and Charles Heidenheimer, Jake Stern and D. M. Ehrlich, copartners, composing the mercantile firm of Charles Heidenheimer & Company, of Galveston, for damages growing out of an alleged trespass by the defendants on «the first day of April, 1884, by seizing the property alleged to be that of Hattie Jones, described as merchandise and liquors, of the value of one…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
Mrs. Hattie Jones and her husband, J. H. Jones, brought this suit against T. J. Epperson and the other appellees, to recover damages for an alleged trespass in the seizure and sale under process of a stock of liquors, etc., *588claimed as the property of Mrs. Jones. She alleged that these articles were her separate property, with which she was doing business as a merchant; and they justified under a writ of attachment issued in favor of Charles Heidenheimer, one of the appellees — the appellee Epperson being the sheriff by whom the writ was levied.
The sole question in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Epperson v. JonesTexas Supreme Court · 1886
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