Barnett v. Goings

This was a bill in chancery, setting forth that on the 17th of March, 1837, Joseph Goings, one of the above-named defendants, became indebted to the complainants in the sum of about 250 dollars; that in March, 1840, a judgment was obtained therefor in the Allen Circuit C'ourt, upon which an execution had issued and been returned “no property;” that the fact was, that Goings had no property out of which the judgment could be collected at law. It charges that in the spring of 1831, he purchased, by parol, forty acres of land of one Hatfield, the consideration for which, in about two years…