Vanschoiack v. Farrow

Farrow filed, his complaint before Wilson, a justice of the peace, against the appellants to try the right of property in a mare, taken under a writ of attachment as the property of one Hathaway. The complaint alleged that the mare was the property of Farrow, by virtue of a mortgage filed therewith. The parties appeared on the day of the trial, and the justice, being a brother of one of the appellants, of his own motion, transferred the cause to one justice Seaton, in the same township. The parties appeared before justice Seaton at the time fixed for trial, and the appellee filed a second…