Bullitt, Miller & Co. v. Taylor & Richardson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. This bill was filed on the 8th day of December, 1856, by Bullitt, Hiller & Co., Murry, Miller & Co., and Robert Richards, against Taylor & Richardson, Sarah Ann Taylor (wife of the said defendant Taylor), and-- Reber, the trustee in the deed of .'trust sought to be annulled.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. This bill was filed on the 8th day of December, 1856, by Bullitt, Hiller & Co., Murry, Miller & Co., and Robert Richards, against Taylor & Richardson, Sarah Ann Taylor (wife of the said defendant Taylor), and-- Reber, the trustee in the deed of .'trust sought to be annulled. The bill, in substance, charges that, about the 1st day of February, A.D. 1852, the defendants, Taylor & Richardson, entered into and formed a copartnership, for the purpose of carrying on “ a general mercantile and grocery business,” in the…
1Opinion of the CourtFisher, J.
This was a bill filed by the complainants, as judgment creditors of the late firm of Taylor & Richardson, in the Chancery Court of Rankin county, to have a deed executed by the defendant, Taylor, declared void, on the ground of fraud, and to subject the property thereby attempted to be conveyed, to the payment of said judgments.
The defendants below demurred to the bill, and the court sustained the demurrer, from which decree the complainants have prosecuted-this appeal.
The main ground of demurrer is, that it appears by the bill that the complainants did not become creditors of the firm of…
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