First National Bank of Sweetwater v. Fowler

This suit is prosecuted to test the validity of an acknowledgment taken by a Notary Public after her term of office had expired. It is insisted by the general creditors of Fowler Bros, that the acknowledgments of certain 'deeds of Fowler Bros, are void for this reason and the property conveyed is subject to the claims of the general creditors, a creditor’s bill having been filed in the chancery court and; the property attached.

An attack is first made upon a deed or deed's from the Fowlers to J. L. Boggs and wife, Ella Fowler Boggs. The consideration for the deeds was $14,900, $11,000 of which…