Wilson v. Smith

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

The appellant, H. Wilson, was engaged in 1893, in the town of Crockett, in the warehouse, receiving and forwarding business. The warehouse was the property of his sisters-in-law, the Misses Breitling, and they allowed appellant one-third of the profits for conducting the business.

Appellee J. E. Smith was the public weigher of said town, and he sought and obtained, in 1893, an injunction enjoining and restraining appellant from weighing cotton, unless requested in writing by the owners of the cotton to do so. Appellant answered by exceptions, and pleaded damages in…