Miller v. Leeper
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lewis Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. This proceeding, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, was instituted in the Lewis circuit court on the twenty-ninth of July, 1890, having for its object the setting aside of a certain deed executed on the sixteenth day of September, 1880, to Dorothy, wife of Zebulon T. Knight, which deed conveyed to Dorothy lots 1, 2 and 3, in block 2, in Green & Hawkins’ addition to the town of Canton, for the sum of $250, the…
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Appeal from Lewis Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. This proceeding, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, was instituted in the Lewis circuit court on the twenty-ninth of July, 1890, having for its object the setting aside of a certain deed executed on the sixteenth day of September, 1880, to Dorothy, wife of Zebulon T. Knight, which deed conveyed to Dorothy lots 1, 2 and 3, in block 2, in Green & Hawkins’ addition to the town of Canton, for the sum of $250, the amount bid by her at a sale of those lots for taxes of previous years, a judgment for such, taxes having been recovered for…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The evidence in this case is sufficient to justify the decree rendered, and no reason. is disclosed why the conclusions reached by the lower *477court are not correct; there was certainly ample evidence from which those conclusions could be drawn, and, besides, the trial, court had the witnesses before it, and could for that reason more fairly judge of their credibility than can we; indeed it may be said that on the principal ground, on which the decree rests, there is no dispute as to the testimony, to wit: the great financial embarrassment, if not the actual insolvency, of Zebulon T. Knight at…
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