Legal Opinion

Varn v. Chapman

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 18, 1914PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Attachment. Before Judge Conyers. Jeff Davis superior court. May 10, 1913. G-. W. Chapman sued out an attachment, under the fraudulent debtor’s act, against A. B. Yarn, alleging an indebtedness of $1,-830.53 upon certain notes described in the declaration in attachment, and that the defendant Yarn was conveying and concealing his property liable to the payment of his debts, for the purpose of evading their payment.

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Attachment. Before Judge Conyers. Jeff Davis superior court. May 10, 1913. G-. W. Chapman sued out an attachment, under the fraudulent debtor’s act, against A. B. Yarn, alleging an indebtedness of $1,-830.53 upon certain notes described in the declaration in attachment, and that the defendant Yarn was conveying and concealing his property liable to the payment of his debts, for the purpose of evading their payment. The attachment was levied upon certain lands within the City of Hazlehurst. At the next term of the superior court the plaintiff filed his declaration in attachment, and the…

1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.

1. On the trial of a suit brought by a surety on certain promissory notes against a cosurety who was alleged to have fraudulently conveyed by voluntary deed to his wife and children his property in order to defeat his creditors in the collection of their debts, where it was alleged also that the principal on the notes was insolvent, and the purpose of the suit was to require the cosurety to contribute to the payment of the notes, and to subject the property so conveyed by him, it was not error to admit in evidence the notes signed by the cosureties, and which had been paid off by the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Merchants National Bank v. VandiverSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Greenberg v. Continental Casualty Co.California Court of Appeal · 1938
  2. Life Casualty Co. of Tennessee v. StreetSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  3. Illinois Bankers Life Ass'n of Monmouth v. PalmerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936
  4. Broughton v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
  5. Gaulding v. CourtsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1954

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