United Shoe Repairing Machine Co. v. Ferrara

Plaintiff, claiming to be the owner of certain shoe repairing machinery, sequestered it in the ■ hands of defendants. Lucille L. Ferrara intervened and set up title to the machinery by purchase from John L. Costa, to whom the machinery was adjudicated at a sheriff’s sale in the matter of John P. Viviani vs. Antonio Adiego, No. 148,851 of the Civil District Court. The defendants set up no title to the property. The controversy lies between plaintiff and intervenor. -

Plaintiffs attack the sheriff’s sale to ■ Costa, intervenor’s vendor, upon the ground, first, that it was preceded by…