Lincoln Trust Co. v. Sweeney

This is a suit in the nature of a creditor’s bill to cancel a deed from parents to their son and to subject the land described in the deed to th„e payment of a judgment in favor of plaintiff, the Lincoln Trust Company, on the ground that the deed was invalid as to it, having been executed for the nominal consideration of one dollar only, with intent to hinder and delay plaintiff in collecting its judgment. In the deed John M. Sweeney, Sr., and Nellie T. Sweeney, his wife, were grantors and John M. Sweeney, Jr., was grantee. The Sweeneys defended the suit on the *688grounds that the deed was…