Hamilton v. Duvall

1. A married woman brought suit to recover land for which she had made a conveyance to the defendant. She set up that the conveyance was made to pay a debt of her husband, and that it was without consideration. The uncontradicted evidence showed, that it was not a conveyance to pay any existing debt of the grantor’s husband; but that the transaction was an exchange of lands by which she conveyed certain land to the defendant and he conveyed other land in return; that his conveyance was not made directly to her, but that she agreed that it should be made to her husband so that he might control…