Kaufman v. Elder

The appellee, Elder, as executor of Benjamin E. McRoberts, filed in the court below his petition to sell real estate to pay debts. The petition stated that the testator left neither widow nor child; that he left a personal estate of the value of $153, and real estate of the value of $100, and a probable indebtedness of $3,700, including a debt of $2,300 secured by the testator on lands owned by him in his lifetime. It is then averred that the testator, ten days before his death, by deed, conveyed a certain eighty acres of land owned by him, of the probable value of $4,000, to the defendant,…