Heckelman v. Rupp

The appellee sued the appellants, in a complaint of two paragraphs. The object of the suit was to obtain a judgment, declaring certain conveyances of real and personal estate, executed by the appellants George P. and Jannetta Heckelman, fraudulent and void as against their creditors, and subjecting the property therein described to sale for the payment of their debts to the appellee. The grantees in said conveyances, Jacob P. and William Heckelman, were made defendants to the action. The cause was put at issue and tried by a jury, and a general verdict was returned, in substance, as follows:…