Keightley v. Walls

The appellant was the plaintiff' below. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff in December, 1863, executed his note to the defendant Walls, payable at a hank in Grceneastle; that Walls, without consideration, and to defraud his creditors, assigned and delivered the note to the defendant Eckels, Walls being at the time indebted and insolvent, under a fraudulent and pretended verbal trust; thatWalls was largely indebted to McCord § Bradley for goods, for which he gave them his note for $1,552, due January 5, 1864, which note was duly assigned to the plaintiff and was held by him as a set-off…