Gill's v. Hanks

Opinion op the Court.

Elijah Hanks filed his bill in chancery, against the executor of Spencer Gill, deceased, stating that said executorhad obtained judgments against him on nine several notes, executed by him to the decedent, amounting in the whole, exclusive of interest, to $980. That various dealings had taken place between him and the decedent in his lifetime; and that “for the purpose of securing said Gill any money that he then owed or might owe to said Gill,” he executed to said Gill an absolute deed for his farm; and that said Gill, in re-*96iurn, executed to him an instrument of writing…