Cato v. Easley
Supreme Court of Alabama
In a bill in Chancery filed in 1824, by Roderick Easley in the Washington Circuit Court, against Lewis Cato, the following facts were charged, viz: That one Wychc Cato died intestate, leaving his widow, Martha Cato, and four children, Burrell, Feraby, Franklin atid Green, who were minors; that he left a considerable real and personal estate; that Lewis Cato administered; that at a sale in July 1817, of a part of the property, the widow purchased to the amount of $773 12, and…
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In a bill in Chancery filed in 1824, by Roderick Easley in the Washington Circuit Court, against Lewis Cato, the following facts were charged, viz: That one Wychc Cato died intestate, leaving his widow, Martha Cato, and four children, Burrell, Feraby, Franklin atid Green, who were minors; that he left a considerable real and personal estate; that Lewis Cato administered; that at a sale in July 1817, of a part of the property, the widow purchased to the amount of $773 12, and gave her note to tbe administrator for that amount, payable in six months, which the complainant signed as her…
1Opinion of the Court
By JUDGE COLLIER.
So many of the points presented by the assignment of errors as it is deemed material to notice, may be thus succinctly stated.
1. Could the administrator of Wyche Cato have been properly made a defendant to the bill of the appellee?
2. Should the wards of the appellant have defended by a guardian ad litem?
3. Is the deed of gift made by the mother, who was largely indebted at the time, as against existing creditors, void per se?
4. Was it necessary to have expressed in the decree, a time when the infants, on attaining full age, should be permitted, to impeach it. ?
5. Is not the…
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