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Taylor Ex Rel. Walker v. Taylor

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 29, 1850PublishedCited by 34 opinions

This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the .United States for the District of Georgia, sitting as a court of equity. The bill was filed in the Circuit Court by Charlotte Taylor, formerly Charlotte Scarborough, a resident of the State of New Jersey, to set aside a deed which she alleged had been obtained from.her in an illegal and fraudulent manner.

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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the .United States for the District of Georgia, sitting as a court of equity. The bill was filed in the Circuit Court by Charlotte Taylor, formerly Charlotte Scarborough, a resident of the State of New Jersey, to set aside a deed which she alleged had been obtained from.her in an illegal and fraudulent manner. The defendants were James Taylor, her husband, some of the members of her family, Robert M. Goodwin, who had become the trustee under the deed after the death of William Taylor, the original trustee, and Wallace and Miller, who were- the…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel

The object of the complainant below, (the appellant here,) as disclosed in her bill, is to vacate the deed, executed on the 22d day of January, 1828, by her before her marriage, conveying to William Taylor in trust for the use of the mother of the grantor for life, (exempt from the debts of her-father,) and after the death of her father and mother, for the use in equal portions of the said grantor, and of her brothers and sisters, all the property real and pérsonal which was given^to the said grantor by the will of her uncle Robert Isaac, whose -will is made an exhibit in the cause, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jenkins v. PyeSupreme Court of the United States · 1838

3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Towson v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
  2. Pusey v. GardnerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
  3. Cole v. GetzingerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
  4. Garvin's Adm'r v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
  5. Adams v. CowenSupreme Court of the United States · 1900

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