Belt v. Raguet
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tyler. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Maxcy. This was a proceeding for the trial of the right of property to certain negroes, instituted under the statute. On the 12th day of October, 1847, Henry Raguet obtained a judgment of the District Court of Tyler county, against one Samuel T. Belt, for $1,248, together with interest and cost.
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Appeal from Tyler. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Maxcy. This was a proceeding for the trial of the right of property to certain negroes, instituted under the statute. On the 12th day of October, 1847, Henry Raguet obtained a judgment of the District Court of Tyler county, against one Samuel T. Belt, for $1,248, together with interest and cost. This judgment became dormant by a failure to have an execution issued, and it remained dormant until the 28th of October, 1857, when it was revived. On the 29th of December, 1857, an execution was issued on this judgment which, on the 19tli of…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The judgment in this case, as between the original parties, Helen Belt the claimant, and Henry Raguet the plaintiff in execution, is clearly correct. The deed from S. T. Belt, the husband of the claimant, to Owen Taylor her father, and the simultaneous conveyance of the property by him, by deed of gift to the claimant, was prima facie a fraudulent device on the part of S. T. Belt, to hinder and delay his creditors. It was not controverted by the claimant, that this was his object and purpose; but it was insisted that the grantee, Taylor, was not shown to have known or to have participated in…
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