Cook v. Kern

GRAVES, Justice.

Appellant, Horace G. Cook, sued appel-lee, C. V. Buster Kern, as sheriff of Harris County, on two orders for the payment of money, signed respectively by Herbert I.. Bierman and Peter B. Vales, which orders assigned such moneys to James J. Shown and W. E. Martin, and which were by them assigned to appellant Cook.

Bierman and Vales, and Vales’ wife, were arrested in Harris County by appel-lee sheriff on August 10, 1953, and $2,-337.57 in money was taken from them. $200 of that money was released to Mrs. Vales, $169 of it was returned to a lumber company in Houston, and $13 of it…