Clay v. McCally
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Alabama
In equity. Heard for final decree on the pleadings and evidence. The facts were as follows: On May 15, I860 [the defendant] Thomas S. McCally, by his deed of that date, conveyed to his mother-in-law, the defendant Ann E. Langford, certain real estate, to wit: Nineteen acres and the undivided fourth of one hundred and thirteen and one-half acres in fee simple, and his life estate in the remaining three-fourths of said one hundred and thirteen and one-half acres, and his life…
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In equity. Heard for final decree on the pleadings and evidence. The facts were as follows: On May 15, I860 [the defendant] Thomas S. McCally, by his deed of that date, conveyed to his mother-in-law, the defendant Ann E. Langford, certain real estate, to wit: Nineteen acres and the undivided fourth of one hundred and thirteen and one-half acres in fee simple, and his life estate in the remaining three-fourths of said one hundred and thirteen and one-half acres, and his life estate in five hundred and forty-three acres, all situate in Madison county, Alabama. The personal property consisted of…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant Thomas S. McCally, as appears clearly from the evidence, on or about May 15, 1866, conveyed substantially all the property of which he was seized or possessed subject to execution in Alabama, to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Langford, to pay an alleged debt due to her from him of over $42.000. The property so conveyed consisted of the live stock and farming implements on his plantation, and the plantation itself, and the house in which he with .his family resided and the household furniture therein. In the fall of 1865, McCally had invested $13,000 in the bonds of…
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