Hamilton v. Lightner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Lee District Oov/rt. Action in chancery to subject certain property held by defendants Henrietta and John*C. Lightner to a judgment against the other defendant, Henry E. Lightner. Upon a trial on the merits in the District Court, plaintiff’s petition was dismissed. He appeals to this court. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The petition shows that in 1858 plaintiff recovered a judgment against defendant Henry O. Lightner for $2,900, and interest at ten per centum j>er annum, which remains wholly unpaid; that upon the day of the filing of the petition an execution was returned wholly unsatisfied. It is alleged that the defendant Henry C. Lightner, in 1868, purchased with his own "money a forty-acre tract of land, and caused the deed to be made to the other defendants, Henrietta C. Lightner, his wife, and John C. Lightner, his brother; that in 1873 he purchased another tract of land containing-*471seventy-one…
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