SWEATT v. GROGAN

No. 5187.

25 F.Supp. 585 (1938)

SWEATT et al. v. GROGAN et al.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

December 17, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hussey & Smith, of Shreveport, La., Webster Atwell, of Dallas, Tex., and McGown, McGown, Godfrey & Logan, of Fort Worth, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Lyle Saxon and Bailey & Shaeffer, all of Dallas, Tex., and Slay & Simon, of Fort Worth, Tex., for defendants.


ATWELL, District Judge.

The plaintiffs allege a conspiracy and the conversion, as the result of such conspiracy, of three hundred thousand barrels of oil, alleged to be worth $405,000.

All of the defendants being non-residents, the plaintiff, while the suit was in the state court, secured service by writs of attachment and non-resident notices. In the motion to quash the writs, it is claimed that approximately two million dollars in property were attached...

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