Riddle v. Lewis
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 28 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 2 J. J. Marshall, 369, Southard v. Crawford. 5 Dana, 470, Taylor v. Knox, 3 Marshall, 179-80, Griffith v. Depew. 2 Marshall, 339, Breckinridge v. Brooks. 1 Vernon, 316. 2 Littell, 106, Lynch v. Johnson. 1 Marshall, 584. 4 Dana, 450. Powell on Mortgages, 1027. Civil Code, section 420. CITED 12 B. Monroe, 187, Greening v. Pox, &c.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion op the court.
Asenatb Tunstall by her deed, dated the 7th of March, 1859, conveyed to her relations, Robert Riddle, sr., Asenath Riddle, Alice Riddle, and Rowland Lewis, all her property, consisting .of her life-estate in a tract of about eighty acres of land on which she lived, her life-estate in a slave named Bristow, the absolute title to four other slaves, and personal estate and choses in action. The conveyance was in its nature voluntary and fraudulent, being intended to avoid the collection of a claim then prosecuted by Morgan Diggs in a suit against…
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- Taylor v. Knox's ExecutorsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1837
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