Bolling v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Creditors’ Bill in Equity to set aside Fraudulent Conveyance by Deceased Debtor, and for settlement of Insolvent Estate. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Butler. Heard before Hon. H. Austill.
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Creditors’ Bill in Equity to set aside Fraudulent Conveyance by Deceased Debtor, and for settlement of Insolvent Estate. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Butler. Heard before Hon. H. Austill. The bill in this case was filed on the 8.1st August, 1871, by Samuel J. Bolling, as a creditor of the insolvent estate of Joseph A. Jones, deceased, suing on behalf of himself and all other creditors who had duly filed their claims against said estate, and who might come in and contribute to the costs of the suit; against Mrs. Sarah J. Jones, the widow of said decedent, William F. Jones, his son, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBbjokell, C. J.
— All the assignments of error, except the fourth and the seventh, relate to matters involved in the final decrees settling the equities of the cause, or, rather, declaring and defining the rights of the parties, rendered more than two years before the appeal was taken. The statute of force when the decrees were rendered, and when the appeal was taken, limited appeals to two years from the rendition of the judgment, or decree. It is insisted in the argument submitted by the counsel for the appellees, that these assignments must be disregarded, because an appeal from the decrees into which the…
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