Holcomb v. Creech

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

G. W. Howard and J. G. Forester were sureties for Hiram Holcomb on a note for $2,000 executed to the First State Bank of Harlan, Ky. They eventually paid it, and then took a mortgage from the principal in the note on a described tract of land in Harlan county to secure them in the amount paid. Six days before the execution of that mortgage (in which Holcomb’s wife, the appellant and plaintiff below, Morian Holcomb, joined), the husband conveyed to his wife a small tract of land containing about ten acres off the larger one, and upon which was…