Legal Opinion

Fanning v. Russell

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1880PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Whit of Error to the Appellate Court for the Third District; the Hon. Chauncey L. Higbee, presiding Justice, and Hon. Oliver L. Davis and Hon. Lyman Lacey, Justices.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott

This bill was filed by the creditors of Sampson Fanning, since deceased, to subject certain lands, which it is alleged he owned at the time their indebtedness was contracted, to its payment. In the original bill the amount of such indebtedness, when contracted, and the lands owned by the debtor at the time, are all set forth with sufficient definiteness. As a ground of relief, it is alleged the conveyance of the lands by the debtor to his sons, after the indebtedness was contracted, was fraudulent as to the grantor’s creditors; that such conveyances were made for a pretended, and not a…

2Cited by24 opinions

  1. Telford v. PattonIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  2. City of Belleville v. Citizens' Horse Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1894
  3. Bolton v. BoltonIllinois Supreme Court · 1923
  4. Dowie v. SuttonIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
  5. Hatton v. JonesIndiana Supreme Court · 1881

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