Chicago Lumber Co. v. Cox

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The Chicago Lumber Company, a judgment creditor of Floyd C. Cox, brought an action seeking to subject to the payment of its claim real estate that had been deeded by Cox to his father-in-law, Henderson Long, upon the ground that the conveyance was made in fraud of creditors. A jury was impaneled which returned answers to special questions. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and Cox and Long appeal.

There was direct evidence against .Cox, by his own declarations, of his purpose to convey the property to his father-in-law for his own…