Irwin v. Chiles

This suit was commenced under the act of 1849, and having been tried without a jury, it was necessary that the court should find the facts on which its judgment was founded.

The plaintiff had recovered a judgment against Christopher L. Chiles in his lifetime, and the object of this suit was to subject to the payment of his judgment a tract of land which it is alleged in the petition was purchased by said Christopher of Henry T. Chiles. It is also alleged that said Christopher paid his own money for the land, amounting to three thousand dollars, but, for the purpose of cheating his creditors,…