P. J. Willis & Bro. v. Smith

Willie, Chief Justice.

The present suit was instituted for the purpose of obtaining a judgment upon a note executed to the appellants by the firm of Laird & Smith, and of subjecting to its payment certain articles of property alleged to have been conveyed by Laird, formerly one of the partners of the firm, but then deceased, in fraud of his creditors. It was also sought to have applied to the payment of the judgment, when obtained, any money that might be in the hands of one W. W. Smith, collected by him under a power of attorney from the heirs of Laird, for the purposes of paying the separate…