B. C. Evans Co. v. Reeves & McGlasson

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees as partners, against the sheriff of Fannin County and the sureties on his official bond, and the B. C. Evans Company, for the value of a stock of merchandise levied upon by the sheriff under attachment in favor of B. C. Evans Company against James Hancock, in February, 1890. Defendants pleaded severally, by way of special demurrer, a misjoinder of causes of action and of parties defendant, demurrers, denial; and specially, that Hancock had conveyed his stock to plaintiffs in fraud of creditors; that plaintiffs fraudulently commingled…