Wilber v. Kray
Decision Date | 19 April 1889 |
Citation | 11 S.W. 540 |
Parties | WILBER <I>v.</I> KRAY <I>et al.</I> |
Court | Texas Supreme Court |
Geo. D. Green, for plaintiff in error. Poindexter & Padelford, for defendants in error.
The appellees, being judgment creditors of one H. Horton, caused an execution to be levied upon a certain stock of jewelry, watches, etc., as the property of the defendant in execution. The plaintiff in error delivered to the sheriff a claimant's oath and bond under the statute, which was returned to the district court of Johnson county, where a trial of the right of property was had, which resulted in the judgment from which this writ of error was prosecuted. In the issues made up under the direction of the court, the plaintiff in error claimed that the goods were his property, and now in possession of Horton & Hays, as his "agents or consignees." The sheriff testified that when he made the levy he found the goods in possession of Horton, who had them in store, exposing them to sale in the usual course of retail trade. In order to show title in himself, the claimant introduced in evidence an instrument in writing, of the body of which the following is a copy: The instrument was...
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