Page v. . Goodman
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Cause removed from the Court of Equity of Chowan County, at the Spring Term, 1850. • The case as .fully stated in the opinion delivered in -this •Court. contended, that the bill could be sustained, either upon the ground that Courts of Equity have jurisdiction in all eases of actual fraud, or, on the ground, that the plaintiff, while the testimony can be had, has a right to have the cloud, that is overhanging his title, removed.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffiN, C. J.
In the year 183-1, Charles Creecy, of Chow-an, intermarried with Edith Goodman, a daughter oí William Goodman, of Gates, In 1837, Greecy, being indebted to several persons to an amount considerably more than he was able to pay, made a conveyance to a trustee of all his visible property to be sold, and the proceeds applied to certain debts specified, and towards the end of that year, .there was a sale, and after the proceeds were applied, a balance of seven or eight thousand dollars of his debts remained unpaid; and judgments were subsequently taken by several of the creditors. At the sale,…
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