Decatur County Building & Loan Ass'n v. Thigpen

On May 18, 1927, Godwin conveyed to Decatur County Building & Loan Association a vacant lot to secure a debt which he owed the grantee. On September 30, 1928, he conveyed by deed to Yates a lot on which were located two houses. In 1928 he returned for taxation three houses and lots, which included the two houses conveyed to Yates and the house in which he himself lived. He became a tax defaulter, and executions were issued against him for his 1928 State, county, and school taxes, which executions the sheriff, on June 1, 1929, levied on the two houses and lots previously conveyed to Yates, and…