United States v. Ingate
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama
In Equity. Bill for discovery and to set aside fraudulent conveyances. claimed in his argument that complainant was a contract creditor, or creditor at large, and as such “shall have an equal right, with a creditor having a lien through the aid of a court of equity, to reach property, subject to the payment of debts which have been fraudulently transferred.”
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In Equity. Bill for discovery and to set aside fraudulent conveyances. claimed in his argument that complainant was a contract creditor, or creditor at large, and as such “shall have an equal right, with a creditor having a lien through the aid of a court of equity, to reach property, subject to the payment of debts which have been fraudulently transferred.” Code Ala. 188(5, §§ 8544, 3545. Lehman v. Meyer, 67 Ala. 396; Evans v. Welch, 63 Ala. 256. The bill under consideration meets, in its form, the requirement of the statute. Fraud need not be alleged, nor the concealment of property or…
1Opinion of the CourtToulhin, J.
The main object of the bill in this case is a discovery and to set aside alleged fraudulent conveyances. The bill-shows that some time in the year 1866 one Sheppard was appointed collector of the internal revenue in the state of Mississippi, and that he, with the defendant, Frederick Ingate, and others, as his sureties, executed nis official bond prescribed by law; that some time in the year 1869 said Sheppard committed a breach of his bond, and became a defaulter to the govern*253ment in a sum at least equal to the amount of the bond, $50,000; and that no part of said default has been paid. The…
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