Wortham v. Boyd
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Bimes. On March 9, 1877, Mary A. Blocker filed her original petition in a certain suit against D. W. King and Isaac Ham, claiming to be a creditor of Marshall King at the time the latter fraudulently conveyed to D. W. King, his son, four hundred and eighty acres of land, of which the one hundred acres herein sued for was part; that such conveyance was fraudulent and void; that Isaac Ham bought the one hundred acres with…
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Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Bimes. On March 9, 1877, Mary A. Blocker filed her original petition in a certain suit against D. W. King and Isaac Ham, claiming to be a creditor of Marshall King at the time the latter fraudulently conveyed to D. W. King, his son, four hundred and eighty acres of land, of which the one hundred acres herein sued for was part; that such conveyance was fraudulent and void; that Isaac Ham bought the one hundred acres with notice of the fraud, and prayed to have both sales cancelled and all the land, subjected to her debt against Marshall…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The object of the suit as it was originally brought by Mrs. Mary A. Blocker against King and Ham was to set .aside an alleged fraudulent sale of land made by Marshall to D. W. King, and to subject the land to a debt due by the former to the plaintiff in that action. D. W. King having previous to the commencement of the suit sold a part of the land to Ham, the latter was necessarily made a party defendant in order to divest the title acquired by him. For this purpose it was alleged that Ham bought the one hundred acres conveyed to him by D. W. King with knowledge that the…
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