Scofield v. Brown

This is a petition in error from Otoe county. The ac-. tion below was brought against the defendant as the administrator of the estate of Jacob Shoff, deceased, to recover the possession of a piano which the plaintiff had purchased from one William Findley, who was a son-in-law of Shoff. Findley claimed the piano through his wife, to whom, it was contended, it was given by her father, some time before her marriage. The plaintiff’s right to recover in the action depended upon the establishment of the fact that the gift was actually made.' The defendant claimed the property as belonging to the…