Bank of Kentucky v. Emmerson

Opinion by

Judge Haedin :

In 1867 David Emmerson, then greatly embarrassed by his individual debts and liability as surety for others, sold off in different parcels and at different times his real and personal estate, which appears to have been of considerable value, doing so openly, and with the generally professed object of making his property pay all of his creditors, to some of whom, in almost'every instance, it seems the property or its proceeds passed in payment of debts.

The object of this suit, commenced in April, 1868, by the Bank of Kentucky and Thomas N. Lindsey, the Farmers Bank and…