Enders v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 58 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM It’CRACKEif CIRCUIT COURT. The facts appear in the opinion of the court. 1. The children of the grantor were at the date of the conveyance very young, and the grantor could have had no motive in making the conveyance, except to enable him to perpetrate a fraud.
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CASE 58 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM It’CRACKEif CIRCUIT COURT. The facts appear in the opinion of the court. 1. The children of the grantor were at the date of the conveyance very young, and the grantor could have had no motive in making the conveyance, except to enable him to perpetrate a fraud. (Starry vs. Arden, 1 Johnson's Gh’y Rep., 261; 19 Wendell, 414; 11 Paige, 619; 10 Alabama Rep., 355; Laois vs. Love’s heirs, 2 B. Mon., 345.) 2. The decree of July, 1848, in which the present plaintiff was represented as a defendant, and as a complainant on cross-bill, bars the present action.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
In the month of July, in the year 1835, a deed of gift from J. G. Williams to his two infant sons, conveying to them a slave named Jane, and a tract of land, was acknowledged and recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of McCracken *349county, in which county the parties resided and the property was situated.
On the 26th of October, 1835, about three months after the execution of the deed of gift, J. G. Williams, the father, sold the same slave, and her child born after the deed was executed, to Robert Enders, for the price of six hundred and fifty dollars, executed to him a bill of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Trimble v. RatcliffCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1849
- Lewis v. Love's heirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1842
- Mason v. BakerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1818
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