Stockstill v. Brooks

This is an action of replevin in which the appellant, a trustee in bankruptcy, seeks to recover from the appellee certain personal property claimed by him as a part of the bankrupt’s estate. The bankrupt, before he was adjudged such, executed and delivered .to the appellee, his wife, for a valuable consideration, a bill of sale to the property here in question, but it was not filed for record until some time after the appellant’s appointment as trustee of the bankrupt’s estate.

When the plaintiff rested his case in the court below, the evidence was excluded at the request of the appellee, and…