Main v. Hall

(after stating the facts as above).

The first question is whether the adjudication by the county court of right of property in Main is binding on the trustee. The proceeding there, under the appropriate statute therefor (Cahill’s Rev. Sta.t. of 111., 1923, e. 77, par. 68), was to test the right of property as between Main, the purchaser from Rose, and the judgment creditor holding under the levy of the execution. When bankruptcy intervened, the judgment, which had been rendered within four months, and under circumstances which avoided it as against the bankruptcy, was no longer effective to…