Cook v. Johnson

The Chancellor.

However much I may regret that one of the defendants, who is a widow, should be deprived of the only property she has for the support of herself and children, I nevertheless cannot close my eyes to the fraud, which is so apparent in the transfer of the husband’s property, in trust for his wife.

"William Johnson was an accommodation endorser for one Tyson, on a note for $822.89, which Tyson gave to the complainant in payment for house furniture, which the complainant, who is a cabinet-maker, had sold him. When Johnson endorsed the note, on the 8th of September, 1856, he was the…