Sandlin v. Robbins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. ■ The appellants, R. G. Sandlin and Martha A. Temple, as the administrators of Henry A. Temple, brought their statutory real action against the appellees, Solomon Robbins, Sr., Charles O. and Kate Grayson, to recover certain lands in Coosa county, Alabama.
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Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. ■ The appellants, R. G. Sandlin and Martha A. Temple, as the administrators of Henry A. Temple, brought their statutory real action against the appellees, Solomon Robbins, Sr., Charles O. and Kate Grayson, to recover certain lands in Coosa county, Alabama. The material facts may be thus stated: On the 5th of November, 1867, Solomon Robbins, Sr., executed a note to his son, Solomon Robbins, Jr., for $903, payable one day after date, and to secure its payment he executed cotemporaneously a mortgage to him on the lands in…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The present record does not inform us positively that Solomon Robbins, Sr., was insolvent, or unable to pay all his debts, when he executed the conveyance to Mrs. Grayson, his daughter, which this suit seeks to override as fraudulent. His financial condition, at that time, was an important factor in the solution of the issue before the jury. Robbins himself testified that the debt to Temple, which was reduced to judgment, and under which the lands were sold and bought by plaintiffs — the title under which they claim in this case — was contracted before the war. The war commenced in 1861. The…
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