Dodd v. Gaines

COLLARD, Judge,

Section A.—This suit was brought by the appellee Ed. P. Gaines for $1000 damages, against H. C. F. Dodd, sheriff of Red River County, and the sureties on his official bond, alleging the wrongful seizure and conversion by the sheriff and his deputies of a certain stock of drugs and goods belonging to plaintiff. The sheriff Dodd and his sureties answered by general denial, and specially that the goods taken were the property of G. W. Christian, defendant in two attachment writs sued out against him by George K. Hopkins & Co. and A. B. Richards & Co.; that they were levied on as…