Kelley v. Connell, Green & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpaddbN. The facts as to the filing of the bill, and the purposes for which it was filed, are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpaddbN. The facts as to the filing of the bill, and the purposes for which it was filed, are sufficiently stated in the opinion. W. E. Kelley, in his answer to the bill, alleged that the lands sought to be subjected to the claim of the complainants was his homestead,and he was residing on it with his family, and that even if it were true that he had paid his own money for the lands, which fact is not denied, the complainants could not complain, because the lands were less in extent that 160 acres, and less in value than…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
This bill is filed by Connell, Green & Ob. against W. E. Kelley and E. E. Kelley, wife of W. E. The complainants are creditors of W. E. Kelley, and were at the time of the conveyance by a third person of certain land to E. E. Kelley. The bill avers that W. E. Kelley purchased said land, paid for it with his own money, and had the same conveyed to his wife, and that said W. E. was at the time of that transaction insolvent, has since so been and is now. The purpose and prayer of the bill are to set aside said conveyance to Mrs. Kelley-as a fraud upon the complainants as then existing creditors…
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