Harrison v. Peacock

This is a competition between a judgment creditor of the husband, and the latter’s wife claiming legal title to the land levied on, she holding under a deed executed by the husband to her before judgment was rendered against him, the deed having been executed in recognition of the pre-existing equitable title in the wife, arising from the fact that her money was paid by the husband for the land, the legal title being then taken in his name. It is not a case involving the mere comparision of equities between a judgment creditor and one holding the equitable title. The court’s charge was in…