Rucker v. Abell

Jddge SrMPSON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Autiiough Robert Abell, the son of Samuel Abell,, sets up and relies upon a contract with his father, for the purchase of the tract of land, alledged to have been fraudulently conveyed to him, in violation of the rights of his father’s creditors, yet he introduces n© testimony to establish the existence of any such contract.. On the contrary, all the evidence in the cause, proves that the land was a gift to him by his father, and not the subject of sale for a valuable consideration.

As then his right to the land depends on a gift merely by parol,…