Maddox v. Oxford
Supreme Court of Georgia
Husband and Wife. Trusts. Equity. Liens. Interrogatories. Witness. Evidence. Set-Off. Before Judge Simmons. Monroe Superior Court. February Term, 1882. Mrs. Mattie J. Oxford filed her bill against M. M. Maddox and her husband, J. F. Oxford, alleging, in brief, as follows: In 1875, her husband received of her guardian <$705.27, which belonged to her as a distributee of her father’s estate.
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Husband and Wife. Trusts. Equity. Liens. Interrogatories. Witness. Evidence. Set-Off. Before Judge Simmons. Monroe Superior Court. February Term, 1882. Mrs. Mattie J. Oxford filed her bill against M. M. Maddox and her husband, J. F. Oxford, alleging, in brief, as follows: In 1875, her husband received of her guardian <$705.27, which belonged to her as a distributee of her father’s estate. Previously to that time her husband had purchased from Maddox a certain plantation for which he was indebted the sum of $2,000.00. He was insolvent at the time of the purchase, and Maddox knew it, and sold,…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This bill was brought by Mrs. Oxford against her husband and M. M. Maddox, to recover $705.00 with interest, on the ground that her husband had used her separate estate to that amount to pay Maddox in part for a tract-of land bought for himself, and to charge the land after-wards sold by Maddox for balance of purchase money and bought by himself at the sheriff’s sale, with the debt off complainant, Maddox being cognizant of the fact that the-husband had used her money thus to pay his own debt.. Under the charge of the court, the jury found for complainant, principal and…
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