Dill v. Hamilton

A fi. fa. in favor of Dill was levied upon certain land as the property of Albert Hamilton, the defendant in execution ; and his wife, Lucinda Hamilton, interposed a claim, based upon the contention that the land had been “ bought and paid for by her,” and that, through mistake or accident, her husband had caused the legal title thereto to be conveyed to himself. On the trial of the issue thus formed, the claimant testified that the money with which the land was purchased had been earned by her prior to her marriage; and in this statement she was corroborated by another witness who professed…