Kane v. Drake

This was a proceeding commenced by Cur-ran F. Kane, the appellant, before a justice of the peace, to try the right of property to a span of horses, wagon and harness, seized by the defendant, Freeman, as constable, on an attachment in favor of Drake against Wesley Kane.

Curran F. Kane claimed the property by purchase from Wesley Kane prior to the date of the attachment; and the material question involved in the case was whether or not the sale of the property, by the latter to the former, was fraudulent as to the creditors of Wesley Kane.

On the trial in the Court of Common Pleas, to which the…