Swales v. Grubbs

— This was a suit by Francis Swales against the heirs and personal representatives of James Grubbs, deceased.

The purpose of the action was to obtain judgment against the decedent’s estate upon certain promissory notes, alleged to have been executed by the latter to the plaintiff in his lifetime, and to set aside certain conveyances alleged to have been fraudulently made by the decedent in his lifetime to his children, who are made defendants.

It was found that the decedent did not execute the notes sued on, and a judgment for the defendants followed necessarily.

It is contended that as only one…