Preston v. Keen

Suit by appellants to recover possession of personal property, namely, twenty-four thousand staves. Answer, denial, and property in said defendants.

Trial by the Court; finding and judgment for the plaintiffs.

The only point presented is upon the sufficiency of the evidence.

One Hawkins was indebted to the appellants by judgment; and also to the appellees by note. The latter claim title to the property as purchasers from said Hawkins upon their said debt, the former as purchasers at an execution sale on their judgment.

There is much conflict in the evidence as to whether the transaction by…