Basey v. Daniel
Indiana Supreme Court
ERROR to the Spencer Circuit Court. A bill in chancery, filed in this case, and which was dismissed on the hearing below, charged that Joseph Wright died, intestate, in January, 1843, leaving a widow and several children. That the complainant, Basel/, was duly appointed administrator. That all the assets which came to the hands of the latter, after deducting the amount to which the widow was entitled, was the sum of 35 dollars.
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ERROR to the Spencer Circuit Court. A bill in chancery, filed in this case, and which was dismissed on the hearing below, charged that Joseph Wright died, intestate, in January, 1843, leaving a widow and several children. That the complainant, Basel/, was duly appointed administrator. That all the assets which came to the hands of the latter, after deducting the amount to which the widow was entitled, was the sum of 35 dollars. That Joseph Wright, at the time of his death, was indebted to the complainant by several judgments and notes amounting, in the whole, to 463 dollars. The complainant…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
— “ Upon the whole, considering the relations in which the parties stood, that by these conveyances Joseph Wright stripped himself of all his property; that he did so with the intention of preventing it from being taken for the payment of the debts due the complainant, and for which he had become security; that the deed was executed without the knowledge of Isaac Wright, the only one of the grantees by whom anything like an adequate consideration is claimed to have been paid; the very indefinite and unsatisfactory statement of the amount of the consideration which he alleges he paid, at…
2Cited by1 opinion
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