Swift v. Allen

This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellants. Both parties claimed under Levi Lee. The plaintiffs claimed under an attachment, judgment and execution against Lee; the defendant, under a conveyance from him, made before the attachment was levied. The plaintiff sought to impeach the title of the defendant, as having been made to defraud creditors. The defendant insisted, and the court held, that a former decree of the court, on the chancery side, rendered in a suit between the same parties brought for the purpose of setting aside defendant’s title, was conclusive upon this…