Reeves & Co. v. Estes
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appear from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before 1-Ion. Thomas Cobbs. J. S. Reeves & Co. and others brought their bill as creditors of T. J. Estes to condemn to the payment of their debts certain money deposited in bank to the credit of S. C. Estes, wife of the debtor; and also to set aside as fraudulent a mortgage executed by Estes to the defendant, .Barrett, and a general assignment made for the benefit of his creditors to the defendant Tillman.
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Appear from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before 1-Ion. Thomas Cobbs. J. S. Reeves & Co. and others brought their bill as creditors of T. J. Estes to condemn to the payment of their debts certain money deposited in bank to the credit of S. C. Estes, wife of the debtor; and also to set aside as fraudulent a mortgage executed by Estes to the defendant, .Barrett, and a general assignment made for the benefit of his creditors to the defendant Tillman. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. debtor attacked for making fraudulent conveyance must prove consideration. — Robinson v. Moseley,…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
— The complainants as creditors of T. J. Estes seek by this bill to subject to their claims property alleged to have been fraudulently conveyed by that defendant in three several transactions. First, certain monies are alleged to have been by him collected from his business and fraudulently transferred to his wife, S. O. Estes, by means of a deposit to her credit in the defendant bank. This alleged transfer being denied by the answers of both T. J. and S. O. Estes, some proof of it was necessary to present even a prima, facie case for relief as to that fund.
The bank in-its answer admits…
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