Rogers v. Evans

This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Decatur Circuit Court by William Evans, the complainant below, against Thomas J. Rogers, John Rogers, and Robert Me Cleary.

The material allegations in the bill are, that Evans, on the 10th of May, 1842, commenced an action of slander, in the Decatur Circuit Court, against John Rogers, and on the 12th of November, 1842, recovered a judgment for 850 *575dollars and costs; that during the pendency of that suit, and only a short time before the rendition of the judgment, to-wit, on the 13th of October, 1842, said John conveyed his land, situate in Decatur…