Stead's executors v. Course
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia, as a court of equity. Stead’s executors brought their bill in equity against Elizabeth Course, the widow, and Caroline Course, the infant daughter of Daniel Course, deceased, to set aside, as fraudulent, a deed of land made by Courvoisie, a collector of taxes for Chatham county, to Daniel Course, and to charge the land for payment of a debt due from the late firm of Rae & Somerville to the complainants’ testator,…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia, as a court of equity. Stead’s executors brought their bill in equity against Elizabeth Course, the widow, and Caroline Course, the infant daughter of Daniel Course, deceased, to set aside, as fraudulent, a deed of land made by Courvoisie, a collector of taxes for Chatham county, to Daniel Course, and to charge the land for payment of a debt due from the late firm of Rae & Somerville to the complainants’ testator, according to a former decree of the court. The bill charged the land as being still the estate of John Rae, deceased, formerly…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court, as follows : — The plaintiffs, who were the creditors of Rae & Somerville, brought this bill to subject a tract of land in the possession of the defendants to the payment of a debt for which they had obtained a decree against Rae & Somerville. The defendants plead that Daniel Course, under whom they claim by descent, is a fair purchaser, for a valuable consideration, of the premises in question, at a sale thereof, by the collector of taxes for the county in which they lie, made for taxes in arrear. The defendant also answered, denying…
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- Stead's Executors v. CourseSupreme Court of the United States · 1808