Golden v. Goode
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. A. IT. Longino, Chancellor. Mary A. Goode, appellee, was the complainant in the court below. She filed her bill against Reuben T. Golden and Reuben Golden, father and son, defendants, to cancel, as a cloud upon her title to the land in controversy a certain deed executed by Golden, the father, conveying it to his infant son.
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From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. A. IT. Longino, Chancellor. Mary A. Goode, appellee, was the complainant in the court below. She filed her bill against Reuben T. Golden and Reuben Golden, father and son, defendants, to cancel, as a cloud upon her title to the land in controversy a certain deed executed by Golden, the father, conveying it to his infant son. Tbe bill charges that the conveyance was fraudulent and void, voluntary and without consideration, and that Golden, the father and grantor, was insolvent when he executed it, and owed, among other debts, at the time, one…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The rule as to voluntary conveyances may be thus stated. *402A grantee in a voluntary conveyance must show, as against a creditor of the grantor, who is such at the date of the conveyance, that such grantor left out of such voluntary conveyance property easily accessible to execution, amply sufficient, in the ordinary course of events, to satisfy his then existing legal liabilities. That is his precise burden. In this case, besides answering the fraud, the demurrer is a general one, on one or more grounds.
Affirmed, with leave to answer in thirty days from filing of mandate in court below.
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