Caffal v. Hale
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal frpm Linn District Court. On the 4th- day of March, 1868, the plaintiff recovered a judgment in the Dubuque District Court against the defendant, Heil Hale, for the sum of three thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars. Said judgment was founded upon a promissory note executed at Memphis, Tennessee, May 7, 1864, for a stock of sutler’s goods.
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Appeal frpm Linn District Court. On the 4th- day of March, 1868, the plaintiff recovered a judgment in the Dubuque District Court against the defendant, Heil Hale, for the sum of three thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars. Said judgment was founded upon a promissory note executed at Memphis, Tennessee, May 7, 1864, for a stock of sutler’s goods. It is averred in the petition in this case that the defendant Heil Hale, at the date of the execution of said promissory note, was the owner in fee of one hundred and twenty acres of land in Linn county, and that on the 3d day of July, 1865, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock, Ch. J.
1. Fraudulent conveyance: evidence. The cause is here for trial anew. We are, therefore, required to pass upon the weight of the evidence, determine the credibility of the witnesses, whore there is a conflict in the testimony, and to weigh the facts in the same manner as though this were a trial at nisi pr'ms. It is not practicable in a written opinion to discuss the evidence in detail. We can, at most, give nothing more than the general conclusions at which we have arrived on questions of fact.
The cause, we think, turns upon the nature of the title held by Heil Hale to the…
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