Hill v. Binford

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by appellants to recover from appellee T. A. Binford, and the sureties on his bond as sheriff of Harris county, the sum of $1,000, the alleged value of a piano taken from plaintiffs by the sheriff on May 9, 1931, under a writ of sequestration issued out of a district- court of Harris county, in a suit against appellant Mrs. Fredericka M. Hill, brought by the Baldwin Piano Company, filed in said court on July 29, 1930.

On October 10, 1932, the Baldwin Piano Company’s suit was dismissed for want of prosecution; thereafter, following a demand upon the…