Romans v. Maddux
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Boone District Court. — Hon. J. L. Stevens, Judge. This is an action in equity, by which the plaintiff, who is a judgment creditor of the defendant Thomas A. Maddux, seeks to subject certain real estate, the legal title to which is in the defendant Ezra T. Maddux, to the payment of plaintiff’s judgments. There was a hearing upon the merits, and a decree for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
1. CTatiomTvb den°e. I. In the year 1869 the defendant Thomas A. Maddux was the owner of the land in controversy. He held the legal title to the greater part of it, and had purchased the remainder, but had not then acquired a deed for the same. There was a mortgage *204upon that part of the land to which he held the legal title. An action for the foreclosure of the mortgage was pending, and on the eighteenth day of September, 1869, three days before the decree of foreclosure was entered, Thomas A. Maddux conveyed the land to Elizabeth Maddux, his wife, by a deed with covenants of general…
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