Padfield v. Padfield

This was a bill in chancery, filed by plaintiff in error, in the St. Clair circuit court, against defendants in error. The bill alleges that Thomas Padfield, the late husband of plaintiff in error, in his lifetime, and for the purpose of evading the statute, and to deprive her, at his death, of any share in his personal estate, transferred to his son William a large amount of notes and evidences of indebtedness, amounting to about $60,000, under the agreement that he was to have one-third, and, at the father’s death, two-thirds of the amount was to be delivered to Ensenmayer and Whitaker, for…