Eck ex rel. Taylor v. Hatcher

This is a suit instituted by a pauper, through his guardian, to set aside certain conveyances alleged to have been fraudulently obtained by the defendants, one of whom is his wife, the second a son-in-law of his wife, and the third a purchaser from the second.

The facts upon which the petition is based, and which seem to be beyond controversy, are these: The plaintiff is a German, at the time of the trial about seventy-five years old, speaking the English language imperfectly, and though a very good farmer, a man of excitable temperament, and of such occasional eccentricity of habits, as to…