George v. Williamson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Callaway Circuit Court. The county court had power to order the sale of real estate for the payment of debts, and whether the decedent may or may not have made a conveyance of his land in his lifetime, or whether such conveyance was valid or void, is not a question for the county- court to determine, as they, simply to satisfy the demands of creditors, order a sale of all the interest which the intestate had in the land which could be subjected to the demands of…
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Error to Callaway Circuit Court. The county court had power to order the sale of real estate for the payment of debts, and whether the decedent may or may not have made a conveyance of his land in his lifetime, or whether such conveyance was valid or void, is not a question for the county- court to determine, as they, simply to satisfy the demands of creditors, order a sale of all the interest which the intestate had in the land which could be subjected to the demands of creditors. It is insisted that the same power exists in the county court to order a sale of real estate, where there has…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
The administrator of the estate of Thomas Williamson, at the instance of the creditors, applied to the county court of Callaway county for an order to sell the real estate of the deceased for the payment of his debts, the personal property having been exhausted. Among other tracts of land desired to be soid, the administrator represented that a certain tract, describing it, had been conveyed by the deceased in his lifetime to his daughter, and that this conveyance was fraudulent and void as against said Williamson’s creditors. The county court made the order. The land in question was sold in…
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