Wofford-Fain & Co. v. Hampton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Harding, J., at November Term, 1916, of CHEROKEE. In the ease on appeal the question is stated as follows: “This was a civil action heard before his Honor, ~W. E. Harding, at November Term, 1916, of Cherokee, upon the motion of the defendants- for a change of venue under section 419 of the Revisal.
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Appeal by defendants from Harding, J., at November Term, 1916, of CHEROKEE. In the ease on appeal the question is stated as follows: “This was a civil action heard before his Honor, ~W. E. Harding, at November Term, 1916, of Cherokee, upon the motion of the defendants- for a change of venue under section 419 of the Revisal. The suit was a creditors’ bill The plaintiffs ask judgment against tbe defendants for the amounts of their several claims and ask that a deed from the defendant M. A. Hampton to his wife, Mattie J. Hampton, his codefendant, be set aside on the grounds set out in the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
This is an action in the nature of a creditors’ bill, instituted by several corporations as plaintiffs, two of them at least resident in Cherokee County, against M. A. Hampton and wife, Mattie J., seeking to establish their claims against the individual male defendant and to set aside a deed for land executed by said defendant to his said wife, on the ground that the same was fraudulent and void as to creditors, said defendants being resident in the county of Clay and the land being situate in that county.
It is established that, under our present system of procedure in which the principles of…
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