Gordon, Rankin & Co. v. Tweedy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lawrence Chancery Court. Heard before L. B. Coopee, Esquire, Special Chancellor. The bill in this cause was filed on 27th May, 1875, by Cordon, Rankin & Co., Adams, Thorne & Co., and others, creditors of Robert E. Tweedy, against him and his wife, Harriet 0. Tweedy, for the purpose of having set aside and cancelled, as fraudulent and void, a deed executed by Robert E. Tweedy to his wife, of date 13th November, 1873, conveying to her a certain tract of land in…
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Appeal from Lawrence Chancery Court. Heard before L. B. Coopee, Esquire, Special Chancellor. The bill in this cause was filed on 27th May, 1875, by Cordon, Rankin & Co., Adams, Thorne & Co., and others, creditors of Robert E. Tweedy, against him and his wife, Harriet 0. Tweedy, for the purpose of having set aside and cancelled, as fraudulent and void, a deed executed by Robert E. Tweedy to his wife, of date 13th November, 1873, conveying to her a certain tract of land in Lawrence county, particularly described, and containing about three hundred and twenty-eight acres; and certain assignments…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
It is now settled by the past decisions of this court, since the act removing, with certain exceptions, all disqualification based on the fact of being a party to a suit, or interested in the issue tried, that, in civil cases, husband and wife are competent witnesses for or against each other, to -prove any fact which did not come to their knowledge through the channel of the conjugal relation; or, in other words, any transaction which is manifestly not confidential. This rule would clearly embrace all matters which must have been intended by them to be made public, the disclosure of which…
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