Severs v. Dodson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, C. J.

This bill was filed by the respondents, as creditors at large, to set aside a conveyance made by their debtor to his granddaughter.

The grounds taken before the vice-chancellor, on the part of such complainants, was that the transfer of the property was in pursuance of a scheme to defraud and delay creditors, or, failing in that contention, it was insisted that the conveyance was, at all events, without consideration, and was, therefore, constructively fraudulent as against existing debts, to which class it was alleged the claim sought to…