Sanson v. Connolly

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In March, 1894, John C. Sanson, for love and affection, conveyed to members of bis family, including Riley Sanson, A. W. Hatfield, Tennessee Campbell and Caroline Steele, the mother of the appellant, Melvin Steele, four different parcels of land, reserving to himself the coal, minerals and timber. Soon afterwards,

*121lie executed tó W. A. Connolly, to whom he was indebted, a mortgage upon the coal, mineral and timber rights reserved. After this, creditors of Sanson brought suits attacking the conveyances made to the members of his family as…