Parish v. Murphree
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an' appeal from the. District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. It was a bill filed by the appellants, as creditors, to set aside-1 a deed of settlement made by George Goffe upon' his wife and daughters, under circumstances which are détailed in the opinion of the court. The District Court sustained the deed upon the following ground.
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This was an' appeal from the. District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. It was a bill filed by the appellants, as creditors, to set aside-1 a deed of settlement made by George Goffe upon' his wife and daughters, under circumstances which are détailed in the opinion of the court. The District Court sustained the deed upon the following ground. “ The true practical rule which' I think is fully authorized by the case of Hinds’s Lessee v. Longworth, is laid down by the Supreme Court of New York, in the case of Jackson y. Town. That'rule is, that £ neither a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
This is an appeal in chancery, from the District Court of .Northern Alabama.
The bill was filed to set aside a deed of settlement, made by George Goffe, dated the 12th September, 1837, on his wife and four daughters, on the ground, that it was made in fraud of .creditors.
At the date above stated, Goffe and wife, by deed. of . general warranty, conveyed to Thomas Williams, Jr., six hundred and forty acres of land, including the “Blount Spring Tract,” in Blount County, State of Alabama, for the consideration of sixty-four thousand dollars.
To secure the payment of the consideration, on the samé…
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