Court Opinion

ID: 9831913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:28:39.286366+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:39.383703
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellees have presented a motion for rehearing, by which the contest is narrowed to one point of attack, and that is that the sureties on the replevy bond are not liable for the value of the property described in the second answer of the garnishee. If this position is a correct one, the decision made is erroneous. The basis of this contention is the mistaken assumption that the property described in the answer to the second writ is wholly different from that described in the answer to the first. That the second answer includes the property described in the first is plain. Both describe crude oil run to the tanks of the garnishee at Breekenridge by the Washita-Ranger Company. The second writ does not require the garnishee to answer for property coming into its possession after the first answer was filed, but required it to answer as to all property in its possession.
The record shows that none of the property described in the first answer had been delivered to the main defendant at the time the second answer was filed. So the second answer must be held to include the 4,944.67 barrels of oil described in the first answer/ Any other conclusion would involve a presumption that the second answer was false, which cannot be indulged. The nonliability of the garnishee for the value of 4,944.67 barrels of the oil described in the second answer is clear.
 The sureties are presumed to know the garnished property delivered to their principal by virtue of the replevy bond executed by them. Having procured the delivery of all the garnished property, their liability became fixed, in the absence of fraud', accident, or mistake. No such issues are presented. Thei replevy bond, executed after both answers were filed, recited the replevin of all debts, claims, and effects garnished, and created an estoppel. Seinsheimer v. Flanagan. 17 Tex. Civ. App. 427, 44 S. W. 30.
Plaintiffs postulate many supposable cases, seeking to apply the decision here made to such other cases, and thus demonstrate the present holding erroneous. Such supposable cases are not presented for decision. The attempt here made is to decide this case, and not to write a book.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.