Carter v. Worthington & Smith
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpadden. The bill in this case was filed 'oh the 11th January, 1885, by Worthington & Smith, partners doing business as merchants in Nashville,' Tennessee, against Landon Carter and his wife, Mrs. Henrietta Carter; -and sought to subject to the payment and satisfaction of a judgment, which the complainants had recovered agajnst said Landon Carter, several small lots or parcels of-land, which had been…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpadden. The bill in this case was filed 'oh the 11th January, 1885, by Worthington & Smith, partners doing business as merchants in Nashville,' Tennessee, against Landon Carter and his wife, Mrs. Henrietta Carter; -and sought to subject to the payment and satisfaction of a judgment, which the complainants had recovered agajnst said Landon Carter, several small lots or parcels of-land, which had been conveyed to Mrs. Carter, on the ground that the consideration was paid with the earnings of the .wife, and the conveyances…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebyille, J.
— The appellees having recovered a judgment against Landon Carter, one of the appellants, in February, 1882, for an amount betwieen four and five hundred dollars, in July, 1885, they filed this bill, for the purpose of subjecting to its payment three separate parcels of land which had been purchased by his wife, and conveyed by deed to her, Mrs. Carter, as follows: the first, from one Donegan, on October 31, 1877; the second from one Patton, on September 21, 1876, and the third., from one Newman, on April 27, 1877. . - .
The theory of the bill is, that the consideration paid by the wife for…
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