Witt v. Gill

PLV, Chief Justice.

This suit orginated in the justice’s court and was instituted by appellant to recover of appellee certain live stock and farming implements which she alleged he held and was her property. In the justice’s court appellant recovered against appellee, but, on appeal to the county court, where the cause was tried before a jury, a verdict -and judgment >was rendered in favor of appellee for the- property.

The jury found in answer to special issues that Mrs. Witt was the owner of the property in controversy, hut that she had authorized her son, M. L. Witt, to sell the property to…