State ex rel. Stanley v. St. Louis Brokerage Co.

This is an action-on an indemnifying bond, given by defendants to the sheriff to protect him, he having levied an execution on certain personal property claimed by plaintiff as hers.

The point in contest in the lower court was whether the sale of the property claimed by plaintiff was fraudulent as against the existing creditors of Cronin, who owned the goods prior to their sale by the latter to plaintiff. The cause was tried before Judge Amos M. Thayer, a jury *412having been empaneled. The evidence, would, perhaps have justified a finding either way, but with the weight of evidence we have no…