Dixon v. Dixon

The appeal in this case is from a decree dismissing a bill of complaint whose object was to procure the annulment of certain gifts made by a deceased debtor in his lifetime and alleged to have been in fraud of the plaintiffs as his creditors. From the voluminous record before us, in which the real and simple issues of the case have been encumbered with a great mass of irrelevant testimony, we have extracted the following material facts:

In the year 1888 Dr. Richard U. Dixon, of Dorchester County, was indebted on open account to Rebecca H. Stewart, the mother of his deceased wife, in the sum of…